Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw Owusu
Thursday, October 06, 2016
A purported comment by the vice
presidential candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) Nana Gabby Nsiah Nketiah
that he is still a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has incurred the
wrath of some youth of the CPP.
They are asking the ‘NPP’ man, who would
partner Ivor Kobina Greenstreet in the December 7, presidential election to
either join the CPP ‘fully’ or quit the party.
Nana Gabby Nketiah, 73, a former
ambassador to South Korea under the previous Kufuor administration disclosed that
he is still a card-bearing member of the opposition NPP which is a traditional
archrival of the CPP.
He said he was still a member of the NPP in
good standing.
Mr Nketiah told a private television
station GHOne Television that he did not see anything wrong with being a member
of the NPP, saying “Yes, I am a card-bearing member of the NPP, I have not
denounced my membership of the party yet. The thing has just begun, this is not
new.”
“Few years ago, some NPP leaders
including myself and former President Kufuor went to the house of the late Mr.
Arkaah to be our running mate and he agreed to do it even though he was not a
member of the NPP, so there is nothing wrong with it.” he explained.
However, the CPP youth, in a statement jointly
signed by Jason Tutu and Hardi Yakubu, Head of Communications and Students
Command and Youth League Secretary respectively, expressed their utmost disgust
at some “utterances and demeanour of the recently appointed vice presidential
candidate of the Party, Mr Gabby Nketia.”
“While it is obvious that Mr. Nketia is
of NPP extraction, his association with the Nkrumahist fraternity in his
youthful days are not in doubt. That is the reason why many in the CPP decided
to welcome him home, irrespective of his NPP leanings. The general belief was
that he had renounced his NPP membership and rejoined the CPP.”
“However, recent utterances from Mr.
Nketia point to the direction that he wants to eat his cake and have it. It
must be made clear that the CPP is in no official alliance with the NPP towards
election 2016.”
“As such, at no point should a card
bearing member of the NPP, who insists on his membership of the NPP at every
turn be occupying the very high position of vice presidential candidate in the
CPP. Going into an election where all political parties require unity of
purpose and of conviction this development can only amount to the CPP cutting
its own nose to spite its face.”
“As such, the youth require of Mr. Nketia
to renounce his NPP membership publicly and with immediate effect and don fully
the gown of CPP. It is only his full proclamation of membership and acquisition
of a CPP party card that will render him one of good standing to occupy the
position of running mate to our party's presidential candidate.”
The youth asked the party’s leadership “to
immediately reign in Mr. Nketia and ask him to comply or exit.”
“It is rather disappointing that such
basic issues were not resolved with him before announcing his appointment.”
“In any case, is there no credible bona fide
CPP member who is qualified to be running mate? Or is this another calculated
attempt to publicly ridicule the party?
The party Chairman, Edmund Delle, must take immediate steps to resolve
this imbroglio. Otherwise Mr. Nketia should be immediately withdrawn as the vice
presidential candidate.”
“If our demands are not met, we will have
no alternative but to resort to mounting ceaseless pressure on them to appeal
to their sense of propriety.”
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