Traditional rulers in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region are angry over attempts by the leadership of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the area to drag them into politics.
The chiefs who are peeved by the move have served notice they would not allow themselves to be used as conduits for political games and the unhealthy conduct of the NDC leaders in the area. They have vowed to resist such attempts with all their might.
In a press release signed by Bulegna-Naa Abdulai Seidu Nawalogma IV, the chiefs indicated they were not ready to be coerced into meddling in the dirty style of politicking by the self-seeking NDC executives of the area and warned them to leave them out of their internal problems.
'If they are not prepared to cooperate with leaders in developing the area, we the traditional authorities are,' they stated.
Reacting to a recently held press conference by some NDC constituency executives where they claimed the DCE, Abudul-Karimu Abudu, was in the bad books of chiefs and opinion leaders of the area, Nawalogma IV said the claim was untrue.
According to him, chiefs in the area have for some time now enjoyed a cordial working relationship with the DCE since his assumption of office. He, therefore, described the allegations as baseless and an attempt to ruin the cordial relationship they had with the DCE.
Nawalogma IV disclosed that on several occasions the DCE went beyond his official duties to lend one form of support or the other to them, warning the constituency executives to desist from using the chieftaincy institution to pursue their parochial interest.
'As traditional rulers, our main responsibility is to assist Mr Abudul-Karimu Abudu, who is the political head of the area, to push the policies and programmes of government for the benefit of our people and nothing more,' he noted.
He reminded the NDC executives that chiefs were barred from politics, indicating that what mattered most to them was the development of the area.
The chiefs warned that the NDC executives risk incurring their wrath in future if they dare drag them into issues unrelated to development.
NDC youth in the area are however upset some constituency executives are bent on ruining the chances of the party in the area ahead of the 2016 general elections under the guise of seeking the welfare of the generality of residents.
Jamal Sessay and Osman Musah, who jointly addressed a press conference in Wa, the regional capital, indicated that some constituency executives of the NDC had taken it upon themselves to make the DCE of the area unpopular by peddling all manner of falsehood about him.
This, they claimed, was to incite the residents against him to make it look as though he were incompetent. They also warned that the youth would not sit aloof and allow them pursue such a clandestine agenda.
'We will never allow persons seeking the welfare of their stomachs to ruin the good things coming to the district,' they warned.
The youth noted that the conduct of the executives was bringing factionalism into the party and appealed to the leadership of the party in the region to call them to order.
They debunked allegations of impropriety and allegiance to the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) levelled against Abudul-Karimu Abudu, the DCE, and challenged those making the claims to substantiate them or forever remain silent.
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