{"id":14169,"date":"2014-04-18T12:02:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T12:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=14169"},"modified":"2014-04-18T12:27:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T12:27:45","slug":"there-are-no-factions-in-npp-frank-agyekum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/04\/there-are-no-factions-in-npp-frank-agyekum\/","title":{"rendered":"There are no factions in NPP \u2013 Kufuor’s aide"},"content":{"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.<\/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":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[43,38],"yoast_head":"\n