FACTIONALISM NOT PERCULIAR TO NPP-RESEARCH COORDINATOR

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The Research Coordinator of the NPP for the Northern Sector, Bright Kusi has played down on the impact of the ongoing wrangling in the party in its chances in next year’s Presidential elections. 

According to him, even though there is factionalism in the party now, party divisions and affiliations are normal with human institutions particularly political parties, and cited previous happenings within the ruling party, NDC, to calm down the nerves of members of the NPP. 

Speaking on GBC’s Garden City Radio’s Super Morning Flight morning show today, the NPP’s Research Coordinator emphasized that what is important in the face of such present challenges is the party’s ability to prevail and remain focused on its agenda to win the 2016 Presidential elections, adding that NPP’s chances in next year’s elections are very bright. 

Mr. Kusi said despite last Friday’s decision by the National Executives Committee to suspend indefinitely the National Chairman of the NPP, Mr. Afoko still has a chance to use the remaining internal party structures to redeem himself. 

Mr. Kusi advised Mr. Afoko to first go through the remaining opportunities left for him to seek redress for his concerns rather than resorting to the law courts, saying that he may hit a snag in court if he refuses to exhaust all the grievance resolution mechanisms in the NPP. 

 Mr. Kusi debunked rumours that some people from the CPP have been allowed to ruin the NPP. 

According to him, it would have been very difficult for Mr. Afoko to have convened a NEC meeting to consider the Disciplinary Committee’s recommendations considering the fact that he stood accused, hence the First National Vice Chairman, Freddie Blay, calling for that meeting. 

Mr. Kusi was hopeful that the current happenings in the NPP would rather energize members to work extra hard to recapture political power from the NDC next year. 

On his part, a former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Joseph Yamin, urged the NDC not to feel complacent about its chances in next year’s elections because its main opponent, the NPP is in internal crisis. 

Instead, they should work hard to project the achievement of the government to win more votes for the president in next year’s elections.

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