The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), is asking its members to support its decision to suspend the party\u2019s chairman, Paul Afoko.<\/p>\n
The NEC and the National Council held separate meetings on Tuesday to among other \u00a0things; affirm their support for NPP’s acting chairman, Freddie Blay.<\/p>\n
Freddie Blay was appointed as the acting Chairman after Afoko was suspended<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”5hTxhVycoPQcHPkGPb0B7UISTQQG8dim”]Addressing the media after the meetings, the Director of Communications of the party, Nana Akomea, stated that the\u00a0two bodies are solidly behind its new acting national chairman.<\/p>\n \u201cThe meeting also re-affirmed the position of the acting chairman, Mr. Blay. The National Council was not seized of the matter because they are an appellate body and there may be an appeal to them but that didn\u2019t come before the National Council so the National Executive Committee re-affirmed its decision for Mr. Blay to act as the acting National Chairman.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe meeting also admonished all party supporters across the country to stick and uphold the decisions of the party and that the party will do what is best for everybody in the party.\u201d<\/p>\n Nana Akomea also revealed that the party\u2019s General Secretary, Kwabena Agyepong was not present at the meeting adding that \u201cno official reason was given for his absence.\u201d<\/p>\n He said \u201cout of the about 120 members, about 90 people attended. But nobody gave a reason why the General Secretary was not present.\u201d<\/p>\n