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Kwadwo Mpiani, a former Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chief of Staff in the John Kufuor administration, has blamed President Akufo-Addo directly for the challenges facing the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
On PM Express on Joy News, a party stalwart said in response to the former trade and industry minister Alan Kyerematen’s resignation from the NPP that the party’s issues started the day Paul Afoko and Kwabena Agyapong were unjustly ousted from their positions as National Chairman and General Secretary.
“Once they [Paul Afoko and Kwabena Agyapong] were removed, the candidate [Nana Akufo-Addo] had his way, and this has continued up to this time,” the former member of parliament for Mampong South in the Ashanti Region during the 3rd Republic from 1979 to 1981 claimed.
Mr. Alan Kyerematen alleged that the party had been taken over by a small group of people who intimidate anyone who disagree with them in his resignation announcement and subsequent decision to run as an independent presidential candidate for the 2024 elections.
When asked if he agreed with Alan Kyerematen’s assertion that a small group of people had taken over the party, the 83-year-old said yes.
“Well, to some extent yes. You know, I think the party’s problems deepened the very day the party decided to sack its Chairman (Paul Afoko) and General Secretary [Kwabena Agyapong], which I believe was unconstitutional under our own party rules, but then the party did it.”
“Unfortunately, some members, including members of the group to which I belong, take pride in this by saying that they were able to remove these people. As soon as the party removed these people, they gave the party to one man who was the candidate at that time, and who is the President at this time, and this is the problem we have in the party which we are not confronting. And if we don’t confront this problem, we are going to have more problems within the party.”
The elderly man claimed that after the election of the then-current Chairman and General Secretary, he participated in sessions to address the problems that surfaced, but there was no progress, only for them to be removed from office.
The NPP stalwart responded when asked specifically if he meant that President Akufo-Addo and his supporters are those who have taken over the party, “What I am saying is that there was this problem, and the party in its wisdom decided to give the party to the Candidate Akufo-Addo, who’s now President Akufo-Addo.”
When the host of PM Express, Evans Mensah pushed further by asking directly if he meant President Akufo-Addo was the party’s problem, Mr Mpiani said, “He is part of the problem. All of us are part, and he is part of the problem.”
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
