“Nothing has come before us. The National Executive Council took the decision. The National Council endorsed it. Nothing has been done about it… they were suspended indefinitely for some good reasons and nobody has thought it proper that this matter should be raised again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Blay\u00a0further defended the party’s suspension as being the right move as it had no effect on the NPP’s election fortunes.<\/p>\n
“There were people who were agitating that since they [Kwabena Agyapong, Sammy Crabbe and Paul Afoko] had been suspended, we were going to totally lose the election, particularly NDC or sympathetic media that support the NDC. They have been put to shame. We won.\u201d<\/p>\n Reasons for Kwabena Agyepong suspension<\/strong><\/p>\n A) Violation of Article 3(D) of the NPP constitution which enjoins members to publicly uphold the decisions of the party, through various acts including;<\/p>\n i. His disregard for NEC decision on 23rd\u00a0October, 2015, suspending Mr. Paul Afoko.<\/p>\n ii.\u00a0Various Public statements he made that cast the Party in bad light.<\/p>\n B)\u00a0He engaged in unilateral actions and activities without consultation of, or authorization by the NEC, such as;<\/p>\n i.\u00a0Writing to the Electoral Commission designating only himself and suspended Chairman Afoko as the only authorized signatories.<\/p>\n ii.\u00a0Granting waivers to parliamentary aspirants<\/p>\n iii.\u00a0Non-reference of legal matters to the proper legal Committee of the Party<\/p>\n iv.\u00a0Interference with Constituency primaries against National Appeal Committee decisions and also, Court decisions.<\/p>\n v.\u00a0Misrepresentation\/misleading of NEC on status of some constituency primaries<\/p>\n vi.\u00a0He, in conjunction with suspended Chairman Afoko and Sammy Crabbe, launched Party cards without authorizations from NEC.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: King Nobert Akpabli & Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The hierarchy of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), is yet to receive any official petition demanding the reinstatement of its suspended General Secretary, Kwabena Agyapong. This is\u00a0regardless of a number of groups making appeals in the media\u00a0for the NPP hierarchy to forgive him. [contextly_sidebar id=”0jQFqxlwBjBugUqB7M2QpGD1nuDIJJpL”]The NPP suspended its 2nd Vice Chairman, Sammy Crabbe, alongside Mr. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,11],"tags":[1857,3,1194,56],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Kwabena](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Kwabena-Agyapong.jpg\")