EXCLUSIVE! MANHYIA NORTH NPP EXCUTIVES HUNTING FOR IND. CANDIDATE AHEAD OF 2016 POLLS.

Information reaching the Trust Newspaper indicates that, one of the failed New Parliamentary Candidates for Manhyia North constituency in the Kumasi Metropolis, is lacing his boot with the backing of some leading members of the Party to contest as independent candidate against the party’s 2016 Parliamentary candidate, Hon.Collins Owusu Amankwah who is also the sitting Member of Parliament(MP).

This paper investigation had it that, after several attempts to unseat the incumbent MP who is also the President of the World Young Parliamentarian forum, some leading members including the constituency through the National level are putting pressure on one of the failed Parliamentary candidates for the area to put himself up as independent candidate .

Rumours are also going rounds that, one of the failed candidates was given a huge amount from anti-Collins Owusu Amankwah ‘gang’ in the NPP to enable him influence the delegates to vote against the sitting MP but, the said candidate allegedly pocketed the money hence lost in the primaries and pressure is now on him to contest as independent candidate with 3 months to the general elections to enable him gain some sympathy among the party leadership as preparation for the next party’s primaries for 2020 elections.

Meanwhile, the Manhyia North constituency Vice Chairman, Mr.Ernest Adjei Kwaku has confirmed that, he has also heard of the rumours that, of the failed parliamentary candidates went to contest the seat in 2016 as independent candidate.

According to him, should the  rumours be confirmed it would be a big blow to the party with few months to the general elections. “As constituency executives we are seriously hunting for that person because we have heard of the similar names but we want to get firm hold of the actual person so that we can talk to him to rescind his decision for the sake of the party’s unity. If he should agree, fair enough but we can’t force the person should it be confirmed that, some body wants to go independent”, he explained.

NII LANTEY MUST APOLOGISE FOR HIS ILL COMMENT ...  JOURNALIST DEMANDS

The incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC) led by his Excellency John Dramani Mahama has officially launched their campaign for this year's election at the cape coast sports stadium on the 14th August 2016 (Sunday) where a lot of gurus from the party were present as well as the party founder, J. J Rawlings and all devoted party supporters.

The Sports Minister, hon. Nii Lantey Vanderpuye in his speech at the launch said "SHORT MEN ARE NOT MEANT TO BE PRESIDENT" .Most Ghanaians have rubbished his statement, describing it as an insult to all Ghanaians and have called on him to retract his statement.Based on this, A seasoned journalist who is the news editor at Dess Fm, a Bekwai based radio station, NANA YAW NTIRI popularly known as