Ashanti Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi has said the party was very lenient in suspending Paul Afoko, Sammy Crabbe and Kwabena Agyapong.
The National Executive Committee (NEC) of NPP in September 2015 upheld the decision of the Disciplinary Committee to suspend indefinitely the National Chairman, Paul Afoko; 2nd Vice Charman, Sammy Crabbe; and the General Secretary, Kwabena Agyapong for working against the party’s chances of winning the 2016 elections.
Dissatisfied with the decision, Messrs Afoko and Crabbe filed a suit over their suspension, but both suits were thrown out by the court.
Speaking to KSM on ‘Bo Me Nkomo’, Wontumi said the trio should have been dismissed considering the gravity of their action.
“When Afoko took the matter to court, the judge even said the party has been lenient to them. To be sincere with you, I think it should have been dismissal,” he noted.
Two years after the suspension, some constituency and polling station executives of the NPP have petitioned the party’s hierarchy for the reinstatement of Mr. Agyapong.
They argue that unlike Afoko and Crabbe, Agyapong did not seek legal action and that is a proof of his loyalty to the party. The petitioners argued that, his conduct towards the party, even after his indefinite suspension in 2015, was evidence of his unwavering loyalty.
But Wontumi asserts that the argument for Agyapong’s reinstatement is misplaced.
“When we were seriously campaigning, they were distracting us. He [Agyapong] needs to be born again. When you’re a leader, you must give respect to the people you serve. He has served before and knows what to do for a possible reinstatement which includes showing remorse, congratulating those who worked for the party to win power, gradually lobbying the National Council Executives before writing to the body for consideration. To say he has changed because he showed up during Akufo-Addo’s swearing-in ceremony etc. is not enough,” he said.
Meanwhile, Acting National Secretary, John Boadu says it is possible for the conversation to reinstate suspended members of the party to come up at their next Executives meeting.
Source: Ghanaweb.com
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Every politically conscious Ghanaian knows Kwabena is ambitious. For him to have contested the NPP primaries in 2007 was phenomenal. Many of us thought he would "wash his hands well so that he always dines with the elderly". However, for Former President Kufour to state that Kwabena is arrogant, coupled with his "Me wo Kumasi redi ab3nkwan" statement tells something about his character. People were thus not surprised when his name popped up in the trio suspension saga. Well, though he did not contest his suspension at the court for him to be the principal witness for Mr. Afoko shows he had no remorse whatsoever! His disappointing Afoko at the eleventh hour rather confirms his unreliability and non-trustworthiness. What exactly does he want from the party? If the party went into this tough election without a substantive Chair and secretary and won convincingly, then they should know that no one will entertain their reinstatement. Has he no morals? After all the term he was supposed to complete ends this year so in what capacity does he want to be reinstated?. The NPP party needs men like Wontumi to set records straight
Those of u who see's wontumi's actions to be that of a " mad dog " should allow these evil snitches to leaders in thier party. Not today, nor ages to come. If I were to be in wuntumis shoes's I would ve been mad lion. These 3 evils worked against the entire party not to come to power, now that God has turn thier wise decision into fulish then u say wey tin ? The party delongs to us, we decide who stays and who goes. Afoko, Crabb, are gone forever. God bless Ghana Gold bless npp Gold bless Nana Addo
Wontumi in his usual rhetorics of a madd dogg* with nobody available to tame him. He has become so radicalized, extremist, and so fanatical to the extent that his actions, utterances and approach to issues defy all reasonable and logical ways of addressing issues. People like him are those who soon run the Party into a ditch. I always said his uneducated approach to issues is very much worrying and needs to be checked before it gets out of hand.
Such loose talks should not be entertained. Wontumi must be tamed as soon as possible. Article 10 is there. they should activate it now
nobody should entertain this agyapong. he is a snitch and a snitch is a snitch. who knows he is trying to come in to leak the party's strategies to the ndceivers ?