In the ongoing constituency level elections, the New Patriotic Party has experienced a 40% attrition rate in the Greater Accra Region.
This is according to party data at the regional level. Some delegates had previously accused incumbent executives of manipulating the processes in order to secure their continued power.
However, the party hierarchy believes that such outcomes disprove the allegations.
Divine Otoo Agorhom, Regional Chairman of the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency, told Citi News after the elections that the outcome could be a strategic positioning for the break the eight agenda.
“If you do the trend analysis from Ada, Sege, Kpone Katamanso, Tema East, Tema Central… to put it moderately, we are having about a 40 percent of new entrants and 60 percent maintaining the old faces,” Mr. Agorhom said.
He described it further as “some level of internal re-arrangements.”
Meanwhile, NPP in the Greater Accra Region will by the end of this week conduct the constituency polls in Ayawaso Central and Ningo Prampram, which are the outstanding constituencies in the region.
“We have a bit of an issue in court [in Ayawaso Central]. We are hoping that by Monday, we should be done with that one [the court case], and then we will clear that election.”
The party described the just-ended elections as peaceful and successful, despite some tensions in some areas.
Between April 28 and May 2, the party organised elections at the constituency level to elect officers to lead the party for the next four years.
There has, however, been some friction with accusations of preferential treatment, with members threatening to boycott the elections over certain grievances.
