This follows the recommendation of the party’s Committee for Settlement of outstanding disputes (the Doe Adjaho Committee) that handled petitions into the selection of NDC parliamentary candidates for the next general election.
The NDC held parliamentary primaries nationwide but the elections were put on hold in five constituencies including Asawase.
The party later held the polls in four of the constituencies leaving Asawase where some NDC members had filed a petition to the National Executive Council of the party following their inability to file the nomination form of Masawudu Mubarick, the aspirant who is challenging Alhaji Muntaka.
But the Functional Executive Committee (FEC) of the party in a statement issued on Tuesday as unsuitable for Mr Mubarick to represent the NDC in the constituency stated that it had “declared him disqualified to contest the Asawase constituency parliamentary seat for the 2020 elections.
“By this decision, Alhaji Muntaka is to contest the parliamentary seat unopposed and for that matter stands elected as the parliamentary candidate-elect for the Asawase constituency and that the two petitions relating to Asunafo South in the Brong-Ahafo and Banda in the Bono East Regions where there were challenges with the constituencies were amicably settled,” it said.
A disgruntled Mr Mubarick had expressed concern that the posturing of some party executives indicated that they do not want him to contest, Alhaji Muntaka, who is also the Minority Chief Whip in Parliament.
His nomination forms were rejected at the constituency and regional level because of some pending disciplinary action against him and found the regional office of the party under lock and key when he arrived at the premises to file his nomination in July.
His supporters staged a protest at the NDC regional office in Kumasi where they burnt car tyres and posters of national executives and former President John Mahama, the flagbearer of the party and put in place a conflict resolution committee to resolve the impasse in the constituency. -citinewsroom.com
