A National Vice Chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sofo Azorka, has issued a strong warning to the Minority Leader in Parliament and Member of Parliament for Effutu Constituency, Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin.

Speaking to the press during the ongoing by-election in Akwatia Constituency, Sofo Azorka, who accused the Minority Leader of leading some NPP supporters to remove posters at the NDC constituency office in Akwatia, warned that if he had encountered Afenyo-Markin at the NDC office, it would have resulted in a by-election in the Effutu Constituency.

According to Azorka, who is in Akwatia monitoring the election, he rushed to the constituency office upon hearing of the incident but found the Minority Leader absent, a development he said Afenyo-Markin should consider fortunate.

“They said Afenyo-Markin came here. Wallahi, if he had come to meet me, there would be a by-election in his constituency. We were at a polling station, and we were told he was here. If we had met him here, I swear to God, there would have been a by-election in Afenyo-Markin’s constituency. We are ready for that. If you are not respecting the police, wallahi, we will do a by-election in his constituency. He was lucky we came to find them already gone,” he told the press in Twi.

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Asked about the report he received on the Minority Leader’s presence at the NDC office, Azorka said he had been told Afenyo-Markin had wanted to remove campaign posters displayed at the office.

“They said they came to our party office to tear down posters. This is a party office; they have no right to come here. Or am I lying?” he asked.

He called on NDC supporters to ready themselves to face off with the NPP if necessary.

“Everybody should get ready; if they do ‘fiam,’ we should come ‘fiam,’” he stated in pidgin.

Meanwhile, the Third National Vice Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party, Alhaji Osman Masawudu, was on the receiving end of a hefty slap during a scuffle at the Akwatia Station during the ongoing by-election at the Akwatia Constituency.

Giving his account of the incident, the NPP Third Vice Chairman alleged that he was attacked by a National Vice Chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Chief Sofo Azorka, and his escort while he was granting an interview on live television as part of his election monitoring duties.

Akwatia By-Election: NPP Vice Chair slapped in fracas with NDC's Azorka

“I have been assigned to supervise and monitor the election at Akwatia Zongo. In fact, I was granting an interview when a National Vice Chairman of the NDC, Azorka, out of ignorance, came straight to where I was granting an interview to attack me,” he is quoted in a report by citinewsroom.com.

In a video of the incident sighted by GhanaWeb, a man who has since been confirmed by eyewitnesses to be an escort of Chief Azorka is seen slapping Alhaji Masawudu in the face amidst a scuffle.

The actual reasons behind the attack are yet to be established.

However, in a video showing the immediate events preceding the slap, Azorka is seen furiously confronting the NPP Vice Chairman before a scuffle broke out between the two and their entourages.

The ongoing by-election in Akwatia on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, is occasioned by the death of the Member of Parliament for the area, Ernest Yaw Kumi.

The election is being held in some 119 polling stations across the Akwatia Constituency, with about 50,000 registered voters expected to cast their votes.

Ahead of the election, the Ghana Police Service, as part of its security arrangements, has deployed 5,000 officers to cover the election.

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Afenyo-Markin is fortunate. Had I encountered him here in Akwatia, there would have been a by-election in Effutu... - Sofo Azorka (National Vice Chairman, NDC)#GHOneNews #EIBNetwork#GHOneTV #NewsAlert#AkwatiaByElection pic.twitter.com/h5KVDHPDHG

— GHOne TV (@ghonetv) September 2, 2025

Akwatia By-Election: Unity at the polls, peace in the nation! #AdekyeNsroma pic.twitter.com/4PpWP1OzbS

— UTV Ghana (@utvghana) September 2, 2025