Franci Addai-Nimo, one of the New Patriotic Party’s flagbearer hopefuls, has urged the leadership of the party to investigate comments made by the party’s Northern Regional Chairman, Daniel Bugri Naabu.
Bugri Naabu, on Friday decided to set up a three-member committee to investigate and fish out some party delegates’ who voted against Nana Addo in the party’s Super Delegates Congress on August 31, 2014.
[contextly_sidebar id=”wMvol2jcCLWAY21OuXPIl1edCg0E8yW6″]He also threatened to deal with the culprits who failed to obey his directive.
Bugri Naabu subsequently issued a statement stating that his threats were “a mere joke.”
Other members of the party including Alan Kyeremanten has subsequently called for the suspension of the chairman.
But speaking on Citi Fm’s Point Blank on Monday, Francis Addai-Nimo, who is also the Member of Parliament for Mampong, called on the party’s leadership to set up a committee to investigate the issue and recommend punishment for Bugri Naabu to ensure sanity in the party.
“I’l leave that matter to the party leadership. The national chairman is there to take that matter up. If there is a committee that is set up to look into the remarks can relate it to the democratic credentials of our party and then make recommendations. Once the committee is in place, it goes into the matter, does all the investigations, the committee can make a recommendation. And the committee may make a recommendation on what type of punishment that should come,” he declared.
He described the comments by Bugri Naabu as “undemocratic” and asked party members to condemn it.
“I think that is the most undemocratic statement I should hear from anybody. Particularly from the family of the New Patriotic Party.”
By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh/citifmonline.com/Ghana