Richard Ahiagbah is the Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party
The Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Ahiagbah, has expressed concern over how Ghanaians have overlooked the recent acts of violence that have erupted in the Ablekuma North constituency.
In an interview with Channel One on Thursday, February 6, 2025, Ahiagbah stated that the public has failed to hold National Democratic Congress (NDC) supporters accountable for their violent actions that disrupted the collation of parliamentary results in the Ablekuma North constituency.
Instead, he argued, attention and anger have been unfairly directed at the Minority Chief Whip, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, for his statements, which he described as an injustice to the entire situation.
“If tonight we are focused on talking about Hon. Annoh-Dompreh and what he’s said, and forgetting the misbehavior of NDC supporters, that will be doing an injustice to the issue.
“So really, the conversation around the minority chief whip, I think should not constitute the matter,” he said.
Ahiagbah argued that Annoh-Dompreh’s comments, urging NPP supporters to physically defend fellow party members in any confrontation with the opposition (NDC), were driven by the violent actions carried out by some NDC supporters.
These actions, he noted, led to the suspension of the collation process and left the Ablekuma North constituents without representation in Parliament.
“The thing is, why haven’t we concluded that election? It’s because the NDC supporters in the constituency are disrupting the process.
“Why are we not talking about that? That’s the actual violence. That is what is happening. These are the effects of those actions. I don’t think that we should be promoting violence, but we should be solving the problem.”
Ahiagbah further emphasised that the troubling issue of the lack of representation for Ablekuma North constituents must be treated with the utmost urgency and attention.
“This whole election in Ablekuma North is a problem, and I think it is one that should preoccupy all of us, including the president of the country because the EC has called on the government to provide enough security for them to continue, collate, and conclude that election.
“The IGP is not doing what he is supposed to do, as directed by the High Court, to provide security for that election to be concluded. So those, for me, are the key issues,” he explained.
Annoh-Dompreh had called on NPP supporters in Ablekuma North to stand by their fellow party members in confrontations with members of the NDC.
Addressing a gathering of party supporters during a visit by the NPP caucus leadership to the party’s parliamentary candidate for Ablekuma North, Akua Afriyie, Annoh-Dompreh stated, “If indeed you are a member of the NPP and you go to meet your fellow party member fighting a member of the NDC, join your party member to beat the NDC member.”
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