Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw
Owusu
Thursday,March 24, 2016
Suspended national chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Paul
Afoko, has ruled out voting for the party’s flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo, in the November 7 presidential election.
“I am not sure I will vote for Nana Addo. My vote is my secret; it’s
up to me and my God whom I will vote for,” he told UTV, an Accra-based private television station, yesterday.
Mr Afoko is currently fighting a legal battle with the party in
court, challenging his suspension as unconstitutional; but at the same time, the
embattled chairman has been granting interviews to some selected media houses
virtually running down the party he purports to be a leading member.
Within this week alone Afoko - whose brother, Gregory Afoko, is on
trial for allegedly killing the Upper East Regional chairman of the NPP, Adams
Mahama - has embarked on a media hype, appearing on not less than three
television stations and a number of radio stations, in a desperate effort to
paint the NPP leadership black and make it unattractive.
He started the round of interview on Metro TV, moved to GBC24 television
before the UTV encounter yesterday where
he stated emphatically that he did not see himself campaigning for the NPP presidential
candidate.
“It will be very difficult to join Nana Addo’s campaign. I can’t do
that,” he stressed.
He said he is still the chairman of the NPP. “NPP is in my blood,” he claimed, but made a contradictory statement
that neither he nor Kwabena Agyepong (suspended general secretary) would
campaign for the party.
“What is going on at the party’s head office won’t allow me to join
his (Nana Akufo-Addo’s) campaign. And I know Kwabena Agyepong will do same. We
can’t risk our lives,” he said.
He said it was Nana Akufo-Addo who spearheaded his
‘unconstitutional’ suspension in the party.
He claimed that he had a roadmap that was to win the election for
the NPP in November saying, “If I had not been suspended and my plan for power
had been followed, I would have been able to confidently give you an answer
that we can win the election…even the NDC, looking at our activities, would
know that they had already lost. I can’t say definitely that we will win the
election.
“What disturbs me more as the
chairman of the NPP is the way some leaders are being suspended and sacked from
the party just because they shared a separate view on an issue discussed.
Indeed, this behaviour by some party executives to me is like ‘madness’.
“I will continue to be the chairman of the NPP until the over 5,200
people who voted me as chairman of the party on 13th April, 2014 at Tamale
again vote me out of power.
“Problems in the NPP as at now still hold unsolved and would
continue to be so until executives of the party work in line with the party’s
constitution."
He said he does not get close to Nana Akufo-Addo, asserting, “I
don’t go to his house anymore. What am I going to do there? We are not friends;
I don’t call him.”
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