[ 2015-05-31 ]

NPP Chairmen Begin Process To End Turmoil
Some New Patriotic Party (NPP) constituency
chairmen in the Ashanti Region have started what
they call a healing process to ensure that the
recent turmoil in the party is resolved amicably
by inviting the National Chairman and General
Secretary, Mr Paul Afoko and Mr Kwabena Adjei
Agyepong respectively, to the region.


The chairmen have also expressed interest in
holding a similar closed door meeting with the
flag bearer of the party, Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo, in Accra to ensure that the party
channelled its strength, resources and time in
booting out the Mahama Administration in 2016.

The meeting, which started around 12 mid-day,
Friday, lasted almost six hours.

No knowledge

However, the Ashanti Regional Secretary, Mr Sam
Pyne, denied any knowledge of the meeting and
wondered why the constituency chairmen would
bypass the regional executive, schedule such a
meeting and only invite the regional executive
just moments before it.

He said he saw a missed call on his phone when he
was in a studio of a radio station in Kumasi which
he realised was from the General Secretary. He
said he called the General Secretary about five
times but got no response.

He said it was around mid-day that one of the
constituency chairmen informed him about the
meeting with the two national officers.

Mr Kwabena Agyepong and Mr Afoko drove off
immediately after the meeting after exchanging
pleasantries with some of the chairmen.

This is the first time Mr Afoko and Mr Agyepong
have been seen in public and also held a meeting
with party members after the death of the Upper
East Regional Chairman of the party, Mr Mahama
Adams.

Decoy

The venue for the meeting was changed about three
times before the conveners settled on the Great
Asor Hotel at Asokwa. This was because the
conveners were afraid of attacks from some persons
whom they said they believed would want to attack
the national chairman and the general secretary.

As a decoy, the constituency chairmen were made to
park their vehicles at a house at Asokwa, behind
the Pentecost Church. To make the deception
believable, they parked some motorbikes decorated
with NPP colours and paraphernalia at the venue.

About 30 macho men were stationed at the Asokwa
venue. However, just after the meeting at Great
Asor Hotel, most of the chairmen, especially those
who parked their vehicles at the supposed venue
went for their vehicles and drove off.

They even warded off people suspected be to
sniffing around for information.

Briefing

Briefing the Daily Graphic after the meeting, the
Fomena Constituency Chairman, Mr Alex Ntim
Asamoah, said “we invited the two to the
strong-hold of the party to listen to them and
also share our concerns with them. We want the
party to get out of these problems in the shortest
possible time”.

He said the chairmen poured their hearts out to
the national chairman and the general secretary
and in return, the two also explained issues to
them to their satisfaction.

“Our next move is to inform Nana Akufo-Addo
about our intention and when he gives us time, we
will also have a closed door meeting with him and
ensure that all issues are trashed out,” he
added.

Source - Daily Graphic

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