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Friday, March 11, 2016

Nana Addo must be called to order, declares NPP activist
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot

Accra, March 18, Ghanadot - Mr. John Kuma, a member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on the leadership of the party to call Nana Akufo-Addo and his supporters to order.

According to him, it is unfortunate that party supporters were organized to welcome the party’s presidential candidate for the 2008 elections from abroad at the Kotoka International Airport.

He is of the believe that the actions of some party supporters and executive created the impression Nana Addo is still the party’s flag-bearer. Such actions, he said, did not allow for grassroots mobilisation of the party’s support base, as they breed disunity.

“I think that this is the time for us to put individual ambitions aside. The party should be looking at how we can re-energize the party at the polling station level.”

Mr. Kuma expressed regret that some of the party’s offices had been closed, stressing the need to act fast.

He disproved allegations that he wanted action taken against Nana Addo because he belongs to the camp of Mr. Alan Kyerematen whose generosity prevented a second round of voting at the party’s national delegates’ congress in December 2007, to select a presidential candidate.

Mr. Kyerematen came second in that election and had the right to go for run-off as Nana Addo who was leading, failed to obtain the required 50 per cent plus one vote stipulated by the party’s constitution to win the poll, but he conceded defeat to Nana Addo.

It is rumoured that supporters of the two leaders have irreconcilable differences that probably caused the party’s defeat at the general elections last year.

“This has got nothing to do with personalities. I am looking at the constitution of our party and the wisdom the framers of the constitution put in it that when we go into an election and we lose it is the national chairman who must take over as the leader of the party,” Mr. Kuma noted.

Ghanadot