The Member of Parliament for Binduri, Abdulai Abanga has accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of masterminding an attack on a branded constituency vehicle of the New Patriotic Party in the area.
Three masked men on Monday, allegedly poured petrol into the MP’s campaign vehicle and shot into it, setting it ablaze.
Speaking to Citi News on the incident, the Member of Parliament, Abdulai Abanga said the incident is politically motivated and a manifestation of threats issued by their opponents.
“It’s politically motivated because I didn’t take anything valuable from the car. For some time now, we have been receiving threats from our political opponents. So, this is just the manifestation of the threats that they have been issuing. It’s obvious they don’t want the constituents to support the NPP, particularly our flagbearer.
“They go to various radio stations and those threats are issued by the leadership of our political opponents. The NDC leadership in the constituency has severally issued threats.
“During the limited voter registration at the EC office, they amassed their executives and all kinds of macho men were always there. And they were selecting persons who should register and not. The signals were there, the threats they said openly. We have intelligence on the ground, they know that they will not succeed if they don’t capitalise on the Bawuku conflict and threaten people,” the Member of Parliament for Binduri said.
However, speaking to Citi News, the Upper East Regional Communications Director of NDC, Abdallah Salifu, refuted the claims, stating that the NDC had no hand in the incident, calling for investigations.
“We condemn whatever happened and we commiserate with the family of the NPP constituency chairman, and members of NPP. But we want to state categorically that we the NDC members in Binduri constituency, have no hand whatsoever in the burning of the vehicle.”