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Ghana: Former Bole DCE Says She is Still the NPP Candidate
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Public Agenda (Accra)
9 May 2008
Posted to the web 9 May 2008
Mahama Zakari
Tamale
Mrs. Elizabeth Salamatu Forgor, the former district chief executive of Bole who stood unopposed as the parliamentary candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the Bole-Bamboi constituency, has debunked speculations that she has stepped down as the parliamentary candidate.
"I have never discussed my resignation as the parliamentary candidate of the Bole-Bamboi seat and I don't think I'm not in any position to do so because I'm all out to defeat any contender", she said in an interview.
According to her, this year's election is going to be a competitive one and the NPP party needs some one like her with experience in leadership to win the seat from the long serving National Democratic Congress (NDC) .
She disclosed this to Public Agenda following her alleged stepping down for a student activist (Issahaku Kotomah) as portrayed in a series of recent publications.
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In one of such publications over the weekend, the former DCE was quoted as saying she had agreed to step down for student leader, Issahaku Kotomah in the interest of peace in the constituency and in the knowledge that Kotomah stood a better chance of winning the seat.
Madam Salamatu said initially she declined to comment on what she described as a fabricated story, but having noticed how some people were spreading the rumour she decided to react to it. " It is time we put our strength together to see how best to win the seat instead of fabricating lies to divided us" she said.
She therefore called for the immediate intervention of the national executives and the rank and file of the party to halt the potentially divisive ploy by some elements at the constituency to foment trouble. In her view, there is no time to spend and "As we allow these small problems to exist we are telling our rivals that we are weak and exposing our strategies to them.
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