The Office of former President John Kufuor has dismissed claims of the existence of two main factions in the New Patriotic Party (NPP); the Nana Akufo-Addo and Kufuor factions.<\/p>\n
Since the NPP delegates elected new executives last Saturday, there have been speculations in the media that the new crop of NPP national officers are from the camp of ex-President Kufuor.<\/p>\n
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia earlier told Citi News<\/strong> \u201cwhen you look at the new crop of leaders, it is clear that it almost represents a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat from President Kufuor\u2019s faction. He has taken over the party again.\u201d<\/p>\n An aide to the ex-President, Frank Agyekum in response said: \u201cI didn\u2019t expect Johnson Nketia to say anything conflicting about the NPP. There is nothing like a Kufuor coup or a Kufuor faction, coming into office. Everybody there is an NPP member, so it is unfortunate for anybody to say that there is a Kufuor faction or so. It is a pigment of their imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Asiedu Nketia also stated that the old NPP executives have been punished by the delegates for contributing to the party\u2019s loss in the 2012 elections.<\/p>\n In a rebuttal, Mr. Agyekum clarified that the delegates only elected the national executives based on their competence.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat is important is that the delegates who met decided to choose who they think can lead the party at a certain point in time. The delegates who met in conference in Tamale, believe that these are the people, who can lead them into victory in 2016,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Office of former President John Kufuor has dismissed claims of the existence of two main factions in the New Patriotic Party (NPP); the Nana Akufo-Addo and Kufuor factions. Since the NPP delegates elected new executives last Saturday, there have been speculations in the media that the new crop of NPP national officers are from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-14169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}