A month after the Kumbugu bye-election, which the ruling National Democratic Congress lost, The Chronicle has learnt that the two leading personalities of the party in the area, Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni (Lawyer) and Alhaji Yakubu Imoro (former Member of Parliament [MP]) and their supporters are yet to see themselves as members of one political party.Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, who vacated the seat for Alhaji Yakubu Imoro in 2004, after he was nominated by the late President John Evans Atta Mills as his running-mate, made a U-turn in 2012 to contest the then incumbent MP (Alhaji Yakubu Imoro), and defeated him in the party’s primary.During the 2012 general elections, there were a series of reports accusing Alhaji Yakubu Imoro and his supporters of campaigning against Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, the then NDC candidate.But, Alhaji Mumuni still managed to win the seat for the NDC. After the general elections, much was expected of the national and regional executives of the NDC to re-unite the party in Kumbungu, but little or no efforts were made to bring the NDC back on track.As a result, an alleged revenge was launched by the supporters of Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni to ensure the party’s candidate, Alhaji Yakubu Imoro, paid for his perceived transgression in the 2013 Kumbungu bye-election.The defeated NDC candidate, after the bye-election, accused Alhaji Mumuni of restraining his supporters from campaigning and voting for him.Alhaji Yakubu lost to the Convention People’s Party (CPP) parliamentary candidate, Moses Amadu Yahaya, with 11,896 votes as against 13,029.However, when contacted, the campaign team of the 2012 NDC parliamentary candidate for the Kumbungu Constituency, Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, debunked the claim by Alhaji Imoro Yakubu, the party’s candidate in the last bye-election, that they masterminded his defeat.According to a senior member of the Mumuni’s campaign team, Mr...
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