{"id":161999,"date":"2015-10-24T06:21:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T06:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=161999"},"modified":"2015-10-24T06:27:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T06:27:57","slug":"i-am-still-npps-national-chairman-defiant-paul-afoko-declares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/10\/i-am-still-npps-national-chairman-defiant-paul-afoko-declares\/","title":{"rendered":"I am still NPP’s National Chairman – Defiant Paul Afoko declares"},"content":{"rendered":"
The National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Paul Afoko has called on sympathisers of the party and the general public to disregard the decision taken by the National Executive Committee to suspend him indefinitely<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n In a show of defiance,\u00a0Afoko said that the decision taken by the NEC at the meeting was null and void as, per the NPP’s constitution, only the chairman was authorised to call such a gathering; something he did not do.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”g7rxsC30tl3W0TiUxOX1RRdhx0uVYPKr”]In a statement, Paul Afoko argued further that “the improperly constituted National Disciplinary Committee cannot recommend any indefinite suspension of Mr. Paul Afoko to the National Executive Committee (NEC)\u00a0whose chairman did not call the meeting that purportedly endorsed the so-called decision of the national disciplinary committee.”<\/p>\n The NEC’s decision \u00a0Friday followed one by the party’s\u00a0Disciplinary Committee demanding that Afoko, be made to step aside until after the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n