Deputy Communication Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Upper East Region, Andrew Atariwini says the flagbearer contest of the party is not competitive.
According to him, although several persons are vying for the position, there are no intense campaigns since the party is tilting towards a particular candidate.
Andrew Atariwini described the ongoing campaigns by the various presidential candidate aspirants as decent.
He said except in very few instances, the aspirants are conducting issue based campaigns devoid of mudslinging and personal attacks.
“It is a very decent campaign, it is not too competitive. You can be begin to see where the pendulum is swinging,” he said in an interview on State of Our Nation.
“So all these things are factors that the delegates and party members are concerned and saying look ‘we know exactly where the pulse of the party is, we know what the think of the party is and where we want to be as a party’s and so why create the tension, why make the whole thing in a manner that has the potential of derailing the little sanity that we can have going forward to the most important elections in 2024”.
The governing party commenced the process to elect a leader in late May and in August, conducted a special delegates election to trim down the number of aspirants after 10 persons were passed by the party’s vetting committee to contest the primary.
But the process has been saturated with controversies with one of the leading contenders pulling out of the race and eventually, resigned from the party as accused the party and its leadership of unfairness and promoting lawlessness.
Another leading candidate Kennedy Ohene Agyapong made certain comments many consider ethnocentric and has levelled damning allegations against the government and its officials.
But Atariwini insists the process has generally been seamless.
