A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Subin constituency of the Ashanti region, Joseph Boakye Danquah has quit the party to contest the 2024 parliamentary election as an independent candidate.
The former NPP Chairman, –Minnesota Chapter in the USA has accused the party leadership of condoning illegality, something he has vowed not to be a part of.
He contested the incumbent Member of Parliament for Subin, Eugene Boakye Antwi, in the 2016 and 2020 parliamentary primaries and lost, but has chosen to go independent this time around.
Announcing his decision to contest the parliamentary election as an independent candidate, TV3’s Ibrahim Abubakar reports that JB Danquah pledged to bring a drastic change in the lives of the constituents if he is elected as their MP.
J.B Danquah did not propose the name ‘Ghana’ – Asiedu Nketia
“The things I have seen and my personal experience from the party clearly shows the party does not even want me. In 2021 during the delegate’s conference –which I had already contested twice –they collected about GHC70,000 from me to go and do development but they prevented me from attending the delegates conference. They said I’m not from Subin.
“But during Isaac Osei’s time, I was allowed entry so I can see that I have been sacked by the party and I have realised there are a lot of illegalities ongoing in the party which I cannot associate myself with. They are all part of the reasons I have chosen to go independent.
“I know the people of Subin want something good, something better, they know me and I know they love me but our means of electing our representatives is not going on well so I have to opt out. I am doing this for the people of Subin, I am sacrificing myself, giving them the alternative, so that they can choose somebody they like,” he told the media Friday, January 26, 2024.
Breaking the 8 is a herculean task – Osafo-Maafo tells NPP Parliamentary Candidates
