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National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) parliamentary candidate for the
Odododiodoo constituency, Nii Lantey Vanderpiuye, has downplayed fears
he will react to the daring call by the New Patriotic Party’s Ursula
Owusu on who has a firm grip on the Odododiodoo constituency. Ms.
Ursula Owusu who is the NPP’s parliamentary candidate for the Ablekuma
South constituency was allegedly assaulted on Wednesday by a group of
heavily built men. She subsequently threw an open challenge to
Nii Lantey on Thursday when she visited the Tarzan registration centre
in the constituency where the incident is said to have occurred. Ms
Owusu accompanied a large group of supporters and her colleagues
persistently dared Nii Lantey to show up and challenge their presence in
the area. Her supporters then got into a tussle with the police who managed to prevent them from entering the registration centre. But
speaking to XYZ News, Mr. Vanderpiuje who is also a presidential
staffer said he and his supporters will resort to the appropriate
authorities to address their grievances. “I’m not a violent
person. I’m not somebody who is lawless. I’m not somebody who would want
to disrespect authority; and as such I would not get up, go and chase
Ursula Owusu and whoever she walks with in the name of justifying
whether I’m a man or a woman. It is needless, it is unnecessary and
unintelligent.” He insisted that he had no hand in the attack on
the NPP officials and reiterated his earlier statement that if they had
not verbally abused the people in the area, the incident would not have
occurred. He said the information he gathered was that Ursula Owusu infuriated the supposed machomen when she described them as filthy. “I
would not condone it, it is a pity she was beaten but today (Thursday) I
am disappointed that Ursula openly threatened; told the whole Ghana
[and] the IGP that she could marshal forces and descend on Odododiodoo,”
he added. Mr. Vanderpiuye took the police to task for allowing Ursula and her supporters to create chaos in the constituency. He
then sounded a note of caution to Ms Owusu: “If she thinks that is the
way she wants to play her politics, then she can only do that in
Ablekuma South and not in Odododiodoo.” “But for the fact that
yesterday (Wednesday), Latse Nii Ga, Nii Aryibontey, Nii Duodu Insaki
and other chiefs called me and called our party leadership in the
constituency, and asked as to be tolerant, [not] allow ourselves to be
provoked – only God knows what would have happened in Odododiodoo.” He
said over 2000 youth got together to confront the “thugs” who followed
Ms Ursula Owusu but were restrained by the clergy and leaders in the
constituency. |
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