Two rival camps of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Bongo Constituency has burst into an open clash, over an unresolved conflict leaving the area in a very tense atmosphere. The brawl, involving supporters of the party’s parliamentary candidate, Edward Bawa, and a group opposed to the candidate, is remotely related to the party’s parliamentary primaries held in November, 2015.
Bongo has remained an NDC’s electoral stronghold since 1992 and it is the first time supporters of the party have engaged one another in a street fist fight. Some news reporters, before the clash, reportedly were attacked by alleged supporters of the parliamentary candidate, and most of the media practitioners who took pictures of the fight left the constituency under police escort upon reported signals of a highway ambush by the same group. Angry supporters threaten skirt-and-blouse votes
Kareem Ahmed Bediako, an NPP social commentator in the Upper East Region, told Starr News in Bolgatanga moments after the brawl that lasted about two hours. He added: “We are fully aware of events in the NDC, what is happening there. We are not going to take chances. We are going to approach all the disgruntled NDC members, sell the policies and programmes of NPP and Nana Addo very well to those people and let them appreciate the competence of Nana Addo and all our parliamentary candidates.”
The NPP attracted 11, 118 votes (32.01%) in the 2012 parliamentary elections at Bongo, finishing behind the NDC who obtained 18,609, representing 53.57%. In the presidential polls that same year, the NDC garnered 23,185 votes (64.42%) whilst the NPP got 9,414 votes, representing 26.16%. -starrfmonline
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