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Friday, March 11, 2016

Asiedu Nketia: Spio-Garbrah cannot question the leadership of the NDC
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot

Accra, Nov 2, Ghanadot - The General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia had stated that Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah had no basis to question the party’s leadership for failing to invite him for a discussion on the raging controversy between him and party functionaries, Ato Ahwoi and Koku Anyidoho.

He says Dr. Spio-Garbrah has not been invited by the leadership of the NDC and therefore he does not have the right to “stampede the party executives to invite him.”

“...he admits in his own statement that nobody has called him, nobody has sent him a letter, nobody has made a phone call to him and yet he enplanes to Ghana and he is going all over the place stampeding the executives to invite him.” He said.

The CEO of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization in the UK has been in the country for the past two weeks in an effort to mend bridges and make peace with party colleagues, Ato Ahwoi and Koku Anyidoho who have accused him of arrogance and showing disrespect to President Mills and his team.

On Tuesday, October 27, Dr. Spio-Garbrah held a news conference in Accra where he expressed surprise at the leadership of the NDC for failing to invite him for an amicable settlement to the problem after two weeks of returning to Ghana to seek for an amicable solution to the problem.

But in a rebuttal, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, in an interview with Citi FM said Dr. Spio-Garbrah came to Ghana on his own accord and therefore he was at liberty to contact the party leadership for any form of discussions without necessarily being invited.



“If he thinks that he has something to tell the executives, he should feel free and come and discuss anything he wants to discuss with the national executive but I insist that he is not in the country at the invitation of the National executive.”

Dr. Spio Garbrah indicated during his press conference that it was on the basis of that press statement that he took the initiative to fly to Ghana with the hope of being invited by the party leadership for a discussion on the matter.

But Mr. Asiedu Nketia maintains that until the NDC decides to call for a meeting at its own time, the party would not be coerced into arranging a meeting because Spio-Garbrah is seeking for audience to ventilate his grievances.

“The party has structures to deal with such controversies and it doesn’t lie in the powers of any of the feuding parties to decide when to invite them.”

He revealed that the party is still processing information on the matter and would invite any of the feuding members it finds it necessary to do so.

Ghanadot