Nyaho Tamakloe is a liability to NPP – NPP communicator

Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe

A member of the NPP's communication team has described Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, a founding member of the party, as a “liability to the image of the party” and his actions are inimical to the party's fortunes.

In the view of Asamoah Gyamfi, the retired medical doctor and former diplomat's “disposition” and actions have over the years negatively affected the party across the country, but particularly in the Greater Accra region.

Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe in his recently released autobiography Never Say Die accuses the 2012 flagbearer of the NPP, Nana Akufo-Addo, of acting in a manner which led to the loss of votes in the Greater Accra region.

He cites the dissolution of a four-member special regional committee in a manner he deemed disrespectful as an example of Nana Akufo-Addo's failure to act in the “sterling” manner he knows him to be capable of.

According to Dr Nyaho-Tamakle the committee, made up of Nii Adjiri-Blankson, Cecilia Bannerman, Sheikh I.C Quaye and himself, was charged by the flagbearer with dousing any fires arising from the primaries and any other matters but was dissolved when suspicions and rumours threatened to derail the campaign.

Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe insists Nana Akufo-Addo's decision to dissolve the committee was wrong and cites it as one of the reasons the NPP lost Greater Accra.

But speaking on Adom FM's Dwaso Nsem morning show of Friday May 10, 2013 Asamoah Gyamfi said if there was any blame for the party's poor performance in the region, it should be laid squarely at the door of the former diplomat.

Mr Gyamfi, who has worked extensively in the party machinery over the years, particularly in the Greater Accra region, said “his (Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe) speech is negative to the party. His actions and expressions repel people from joining the NPP.

In 1992 he said in Tema that if (then flagbearer) Adu Boahen does not win the elections there will be fire in the country but on the day of the election he was out of the country. He did the same thing in 1996. He is a liability to the party.”

He strongly supported Nana Akufo-Addo's decision to dissolve the group, saying the reason for its constitution was being thwarted by infighting.

Mr Gyamfi called on the leadership of the NPP to move away from appointing people based on “names. We need people who have constituencies.”