More Regional New Patriotic Party (NPP) executives across the country are pushing for the removal of the party’s National Chairman, Paul Afoko and General Secretary, Kwabena Agyepong from their positions.
Five regions had earlier petitioned the party’s National Council to ask the two leaders to step aside.
[contextly_sidebar id=”5Lk9rTdbNSHnAFJCZZfDvJgYbplmwZNU”]They included the Volta, Central, Eastern, Western and the Greater Accra regions.
Upper West Region
The NPP Upper West Regional executive committee at a meeting on Monday resolved that they want the two embattled national officers removed.
In an interview with Citi News, the regional youth organizer Mustapha Govee insisted that the executives voted massively for their removal; a decision they believe will be in the supreme interest of the party.
“The meeting only constituted regional executive committee. That issue on impeachment was discussed and after the discussion…I can tell you on authority that 22 people actually voted in favour of the impeachemnet, only two abstained,” he noted.
Upper East Region
In the Upper East, the Regional Secretary, Ayambire Cletus Innocent said they expect eight more members of the regional executive committee to sign the resolution for Afoko and Agyepong to step aside.
“We as a host region should have started first with a resolution demanding that the national chairman and the general secretary step aside for us to resolve the issues amicably among ourselves. We decided to organize the meeting in two folds; one for the Bawku zone where six constituencies unanimously resolved that the two should step aside and allow us to do our business in peace.”
“We organized another one for the nine constituencies this afternoon to endorse the same issue making up a total of 15 constituencies. The long and short of this matter is that we have resolved…that in order that peace prevail in our region the two national executives should step aside,” he added.
Northern Region
In the Northern Region however, NPP Constituency Executives raised alarm that they were made to sign a petition with contents they were not privy to.
Some of the executives vehemently kicked against the signing; a situation which caused a lot of commotion at the Tamale Sports Stadium where the meeting took place.
Correspondent Mashud Kombat who was at the meeting reported that the “Constituency executives were made to sign their names to be attached to a petition they do not know its contents.”
Though Mashud Kombat observed that the meeting went on smoothly, he said, the signing of the petition nearly halted the meeting.
“Some of the executives I spoke to explained that the first constituencies that went in to sign said it’s a document that you have to read and to agree or not to agree. The questions they were putting forward is that in case you are unable to read the document you are not in the position to understand it and that was the bases why they were protesting.”
Background
The petition follows the death of the Party’s Upper East Regional Chairman, Adam Mahama.
Adam Mahama’s death was triggered by the disruption of a recent planned meeting between Paul Afoko, Kwabena Agyepong and some executives of the party in the Upper East region.
Paul Afoko’s brother is currently facing murder charges for the alleged role he played in the death of the Upper East Chairman.
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By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana