Despite efforts by members and executives of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to show that all is well within the party some people suspected to be Afoko sympathisers are still openly demanding answers to what can be described as serious questions, and also calling for the defence of the party’s constitution.
While the Sunyani Township was flogged with colours and flags of the NPP during the just-ended Delegates’ Conference in the Brong Ahafo Capital, there were also posters in some parts of the town with messages asking the Acting National Chairman, Mr Freddie Blay and National Treasurer, Mr Abankwa Yeboah to account for some unspecified monies.
Other posters were also calling on party members and followers to rise up and defend the party’s constitution because the people who put them up believed the constitution was under attack.
The Daily Heritage on its rounds in Sunyani saw posters that read “Our constitution is under attack let’s defend it” and “Abankwa, Blay na sika no wo hen?” to wit; Abankwa and Blay where is the money?
When the paper spoke with some traders and residents, they could not state when the posters were splashed in town and could also not identify the people behind them.
The jubilant party members, however, did not give credence to the posters as they went about their activities peacefully.
During the event, the flag bearer of the NPP, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, former President John Agyekum Kufuor, Nana Akufo-Addo’s running mate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and the Acting National Chairman, Mr Freddie Blay among others addressed the gathering.
Mr. Akufo-Addo in his address said 2015 has been a “tumultuous one for our party. We have made the front pages for all the wrong reasons; we have spent our energies fighting each other, instead of our opponents.”
He stated that they were ending the year with three senior elected officials and a handful of other officers having been suspended from office noting that “this has been a traumatic experience for me personally.”
The flag bearer said he wished they had been able to find a less painful way of resolving the problems that have rocked the party and added that within the past “12 months, I have participated in every attempt to resolve the differences at the Party Headquarters. It has been most frustrating that the efforts have not yielded the fruits we expected.”
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