Johnson Asiedu-Nketiah - NDC General Secretary
Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By
William Yaw Owusu
Accra, Thursday November 15, 2012.
A group calling itself Grass Root Supporters Front
of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has issued a stern warning to
the party’s General Secretary to desist from insults he rains on former
President Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings.
In 2011, the NDC’s ever powerful scribe who has
the penchant to insult his political opponents told now defunct Democratic
Freedom Party (DFP) officials who were returning to the NDC that he would have
been surprised if they had continued to sit on the fence after taming the
barking dog.
The barking dog comment has been interpreted by
many to mean he was referring to the NDC founder who had problems with Dr. Obed
Asamoah and his group that compelled them to form the DFP.
The group on Tuesday held a news conference to
bring the attention of President John Mahama to what they call “Asiedu-Nketiah’s
insulting behaviour” that has brought disunity in the NDC.
Ekow Edwards who is the spokesperson of the group
later told Oman FM Wednesday that “If Asiedu-Nketiah could go to the extent of
describing our founder as a barking dog then we qualify to call him monkey.”
“If that is what he wants then the barking dog is
coming and he should hide himself in a cage. This cannot be an insult because
he is always insulting our founder.”
“We call on the President to take action against
Asiedu-Nketiah for calling our founder a barking Dog. Since 2009, there have
been divisions in the NDC. People have looked on for some greedy bastards to
take over the party.”
He said had it not been for the effort of the
former President “we would not have the NDC…We in the grass root are fully
behind him…Whoever rises against him is going face our wrath.”
Mr. Edwards said that former President Rawlings after
ruling for 19 years has gained enough experience to be able “to point out our
faults and I do not see why people like Asiedu-Nketiah should denigrate him.”
They claimed that “This is not the first time Asiedu-Nketiah
is insulting people in the party. He has done it severally and in each time we
let it pass but I think he is crossing the line and we cannot allow him to go
on.”
“Since we came to power he has belittled anything
that JJ says. We say enough is enough. We wish he would leave the party so that
we can have our peace.”
The group said that what is irksome about the NDC
General Secretary’s behaviour is his recent pronouncement that former President
Rawlings had to put in an application if he wanted to join the NDC campaign
trail.
“What is he trying to tell us? How many votes can
he draw for the party that he is behaving this way?”
“We need to face the facts and tell him in the
face that that he is destroying our party…He can’t compare himself with JJ when
it comes to charisma and instead of speaking to calm matters he goes out there to
muddy the waters.”
As General Secretary, he has to be disciplined and
not go about insulting people. If he insults our founder, I don’t think he
expects us to accord him any respect…As grass root supporters if he opens his
mouth again we will go for him.”
He cited the treatment by some of the party’s
national and regional executives meted out to Andrew Okaikoi, who has since
filed to contest as independent candidate, as creating a bad image for the NDC.
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