Mr. Evans Nimako, the director of elections for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), has revealed that it was not intentional to exclude delegates selected from the Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) from participating in the National Delegates Conference voting process.
He apologised to the group and said that because the party was unaware of what was going on, it would not have even let them to travel from their various campuses to attend the congress if they had been informed in advance.
Injunction
About 291 members of TESCON who were proxy votes were prohibited from participating in the 2022 NPP National Delegates Conference. Due to an injunction that was imposed on the party, this has happened.
Peter Mac Manu, the head of the NPP's election committee, informed the delegates of this on Saturday.
In order to shed some light on the situation, Mac Manu said that the injunction prohibiting TESCON proxy voting was obtained on Friday night, the day before the conference.
"There is an injunction, and our TESCON delegates and local proxy voters numbered 15 and 291 will not be able to cast their votes. The injunction was sent to us yesterday night," he stated.
Mechanism for Internal Conflict
Speaking on Okay FM's Ade Akye Abia show, he said that the party has internal systems in place to deal with such matters and that the individual who was wronged and sought such an order in court should have used and exhausted party mechanisms first, even before turning to court.
He said, "It is quite sad that events played out the way they did at the congress grounds; nobody meant for such action to take place and nobody wanted to lose votes as some are claiming.
As a result, Mr. Nimako extended an unequivocal apologies to all TESCON members and assured them that such incidents won't occur again since the party is taking action to get such problems handled.
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