WIREKO-BROBBY TO CONTEST SEAT AS INDEPENDENT (PAGE 17)

A 36-year-old Development Engineer, Mr Bright Wireko-Brobby, has decided to contest the Hemang-Lower Denkyira seat as an independent parliamentary candidate.
Mr Wireko-Brobby, who announced this at a press conference in Cape Coast, said he took the decision to contest the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the December parliamentary elections, to vindicate his position that he was truly the man of the people.
He said that he took the decision after a deep and sober reflection of an unfair and unjustifiable treatment meted out to him and his teeming supporters by the NPP Constituency Executives and the Central Regional Chairman over his eligibility to contest the primary.
Mr Wireko-Brobby said he had chosen the lantern as his symbol, and that as a true faithful of the NPP, he filed his papers to contest the incumbent MP because many supporters in the constituency had lost faith and confidence in the incumbent Member of Parliament.
He said since the incumbent realised that he would be defeated at the primary, he teamed up with the constituency executive and were reluctant to allow any eligible person to contest him, and falsely argued that he, Wireko-Brobby, was not known in the party.
He said he had been a member of the party since 1992 and was even privileged to introduce the late professor Adu Boahen during a campaign in the constituency.
He said when Mr Lord Commey, who happened to chair the vetting committee for prospective candidates, realised that he had been unfairly treated, he referred the matter to a mediation committee, chaired by Nana Awuku.
He expressed surprise as to why some constituencies such as Suhum, Tema East, Offinso and Oforikrom, which had not had their primaries were spared the acclamation.
He said apart from denying him of his democratic right to contest, the action was also a breach of the party” constitution.
He said with his 12 years of experience as a Development Consultant, and having worked earlier on USAID-sponsored projects across the length and breadth of the country and now CARE International, a non-governmental organisation, he was only responding to distress calls from his people to contest as an independent candidate.
He called on all eligible voters to register and vote massively to vindicate his position that he was truly the man of the people.