Leadership of the New Patriotic Party in the Ashanti region have maintained that Monday’s strained meetings had nothing to do with the death of the party’s Upper East Regional Chairman Adams Mahama and whether or not his killing was linked to the party’s embattled National Chairman and General Secretary.
The party insists the meeting was to take a decision on how to handle what they describe as misconduct on the part of the National Chairman Paul Afoko and the General Secretary Kwabena Agyapong.
The two have widely been fingered as being responsible for events that led to the death of Adams Mahama triggering a vote of no confidence from some regional offices across the country.
The Ashanti Region version of the crunch meeting however, turned chaotic after regional executives with dissenting views stamped out of the meeting accusing the Ashanti regional chairman Mr Antwi Boasiako of masterminding the removal of the beleaguered national officers.
Speaking on Ultimate Breakfast on Ultimate 106.9 fm in Kumasi, third vice chair of the NPP, Francis Freduah Antoh stated that several delegates at the meeting were displeased with the leadership of Mr Afoko and Kwabena Agyapong which had created unnecessary tension in the party.
“To some of them, they feel that these people are not conducting themselves well considering the series of events that have happened since they assumed leadership of this party. It is not the best and it is giving us a bad name,” he lamented.
Cataloguing the worries of the delegates, he recounted: “from day one, changing of guards at the party office, dismissal of the finance and administrative officer, management of deputies…. they are calling for their heads.”
Mr Freduah Antoh however called for an end to the vilification directed at the party’s flag bearer Nana Akufo-Addo and other party elders for staying aloof in trying times of the party.
He noted that such assertions were untrue as “Nana Akufo-Addo meets the General Secretary and the Party’s National Chairman together with the Minority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu every Wednesday to deliberate on issues concerning the party.”
He would however not give details of a certain meeting he claimed the party leadership recently held with former president John Agyekum Kuffour whose results and recommendations he was worried fell on deaf ears leading to deepened upheavals in the party.
