By Collins Sarkodieh 
The internal political landscape within the Ashanti Region is facing a major grassroots challenge ahead of upcoming party exercises. Serious internal tension is escalating within the New Patriotic Party in the Bantama Constituency over the alleged manipulation of the polling station album.
Aggrieved local delegates and top executives have openly raised alarms, warning that unauthorized structural adjustments to the official voter register could completely compromise the integrity of the party’s upcoming internal elections.
The sharp internal disagreement highlights the high stakes surrounding local executive control within one of the ruling party’s biggest strongholds.
Logic dictates that when party delegates suspect that their names are being quietly erased from a voting register, they will absolutely not sit back and watch their democratic rights disappear. Led by the Constituency Chairman, Fiifi Mensah, the aggrieved group claims that the Member of Parliament for Bantama, Francis Asenso-Boakye, alongside the First Vice Chairman and the Constituency Youth Organizer, have allegedly removed several eligible delegates from the album without any clear justification.
In a dramatic move to protect the integrity of the data, Chairman Mensah personally took absolute custody of the physical polling station album and locked up his official office to block access.
The intense standoff quickly drew the attention of state security, forcing officers from the Suntreso District Police Command to deploy directly to the party office to restore calm and prevent physical clashes among local factions. Chairman Mensah has urged calm while revealing that plans are already underway to petition regional and national executives to resolve the database issue.
Hoping to comfortably win a highly competitive national election while your own executives are busy locking offices and calling the police over a voting album is an absolute logical failure. While intense competition during internal primaries is healthy, trying to win an advantage by secretly changing voter lists ruins the trust of your most dedicated grassroots workers.
True political victory relies on open transparency, strict rules, and fair play for everyone. By letting national elders fix this register error immediately and keeping the process clean, the Bantama enclave can stay completely united and focused on the bigger national battle ahead.
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