[ 2014-10-20 ]

Dissolve NPP if wobbly NDC wins 2016 elections – Amoako-Baah
Political Scientist, Dr. Richard Amoako-Baah says
the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)
should consider dissolving the party if it loses
the 2016 presidential elections.

The Head of Department of History and Political
Studies of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science
and Technology (KNUST) says the governing National
Democratic Congress is currently not in the shape
to win an election against the NPP..

“This is the most vulnerable moment for the
NDC…If the NDC manages to win [2016 elections]
then you may as well dissolve NPP,” he said on
the Super Morning Show on Joy FM, Monday, October
20.

He said the 2016 Presidential poll “is a
critical election which NPP must win”.

Delegates of the opposition party on Saturday
October 18, elected for the third time in
succession veteran politician, Nana Akufo-Addo as
flagbearer for the 2016 elections.

Nana Akufo-Addo recorded a resounding victory by
polling 117,413 votes representing 94.35 percent
of total votes cast.

His closest challenger, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen
managed a paltry 5,908 votes representing only
4.75% of total valid votes cast.

The presidential primaries were preceded by
internal wrangling with some bigwigs accusing the
leadership of siding with one of the contenders.

Having come out of the fiercely contested polls,
Dr. Amoako-Baah says the leadership of the party
has no excuse but to mend the cracks in the party
and beat the incumbent NDC.

General Secretary of the NPP, Kwabena Agyapong
says the fact that the leaders have not made
public, efforts being made at mending the
divisions does not mean the party is doing nothing
about the internal wranglings.

According to him, the NPP’s major task now is to
market the newly elected torchbearer, Nana
Akufo-Addo, but not to discuss in public detail,
strategies towards running its campaigns for
2016.

“Parties are not run in the media, parties are
not run on the streets of Ghana…We have a
candidate to market; we have a party to run and
that’s what we are going to do,” Mr. Agyapong
emphasized.

He said: “This party has already begun a healing
process and it started at the Afua Sutherland
Park” on Saturday where Nana Addo was outdoored
following his re-election.

The General Secretary also called for a ceasefire
among party officials who comment publicly on
‘sensitive’ internal party issues.

“Let’s put a stop to the public talk…that is
letting out everything we are going to do to our
opponent and [it is not good for us]” he stated.

Source - Joy News

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