The NPP Northern Regional Chairman, Mohammed Adam Bantima Samba has said that the beleaguered parliamentary candidate in the Bimbila constituency, Alhaji Ahmed Zaruk Nuru is deliberately sabotaging the party’s chances of winning more seats in the area.
He said this exclusively tonight on radio Tamale’s newly created programme, Bawumia Tuma Noli when he was updating the party supporters in the region over the matter so.
“Zaruk wants to destroy the NPP in the Northern Region. I don’t have the power to prevent anybody from contesting. Who am I? If upon all the explanations we give and the evidences available to the public, then you just don’t like me”, chairman Samba said.
When he was asked if he ever told Zaruk not to contest, Chairman Samba admitted that he actually invited him to his office in Accra as NPP chairman who wants to ensure the party goes into the elections and comes out more united than before.
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The troubled Parliamentary Candidate hopeful for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Bimbila Cosntituency, Alhaj Ahmed Zaruk has hinted that the people of people of the area will resist any attempt by the party to impose a candidate on them going into the 2024 general elections.
Alhaji Nuru Zaruk served this warning at a press conference in Tamale yesterday Sunday, January 7 where he addressed the media to break his silence since the brouhaha in the constituency started over the omission of his name in the vetting list last week.
His actions were as a result of the vetting committee’s demand for him to go back to Bimbila to sign his nomination forms to enable him go through the contest in the parliamentary primaries slated for January 27 this year.
Alhaj Ahmed Zaruk also said Chairman Samba and his cabal are doing everything possible to prevent him from contesting in the election with all sort of machinations, adding that they want to deny the people of Bimbila a true representation in parliament.
He revealed that during his encounter with the vetting committee, the chairman indicated that he should sign the documents in Tamale to solve the challenges that resulted in the vandalization of the office, but Chairman Samba and his executives insisted that it should done in Bimbila for reasons he believes are aimed at embarrassing him to the constituents.
Meanwhile, his opponent who doubles as the incumbent MP for the Bimbila constituency, Dominic Nitiwul on the vetting day last week said he was not worried by the happenings in the constituency, adding that he was appealing to the party leadership to allow Zaruk be part of the elections, so he could use him to teach the NDC a lesson of what he will do to them in December 2024.
