Nobody can intervene in NPP crisis; not even Kufuor - Kwesi Pratt

Veteran journalist Kwesi Pratt says all the relevant stakeholders who could have helped end an internal NPP war have now been compromised or smeared.

He said not even the call by Sam Okudzeto inviting former president John Agyekum Kufuor to intervene in the crisis , will work.

Kwesi Pratt who is also Managing editor of the Insight newspaper argues that some NPP leaders have accused President Kufuor of being behind the crisis, tainting him and eliminating any chance of the former president being a trusted arbiter.

Sam Okudzeto
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been engulfed in a bitter plot to remove its national chairman Paul Afoko and General Secretary Kwabena Agyepong following the tragic acid attack on a regional chairman, Adams Mahama.

The Upper East regional chairman of the party died a day after he was attacked with acid.

Since then about seven out of 10 regional branches of the party have prevailed on the two leaders to step aside. The party’s Minority in Parliament have also joined in the chorus.

Discussing the crisis on Adom FM’s ‘Dwaso Nsem’ Thursday, Kwesi Pratt said the other conflict resolution organ which is the NPP Council of Elder also compromised its peace-keeping role after it held a meeting at the same time the regional meetings were demanding that the two embattled national executives be made to step aside.

“The coincidence is very interesting…..the Council of Elders also did the same thing the regional chairmen did on May 25. How do you become neutral arbiters in this dispute? The moral authority of the Council of elders is gone”, he said.

According to Kwesi Pratt, in view of the lack of arbiters in the party, “they [regional chairmen et al] have no choice but to work together [with Paul Afoko, Kwabena Agyapong] if they want to win 2016. They have no choice.”

Kwesi Pratt, who is known to be opposed to the NPP, believes the calls for the removal of the troubled two is not the way to go if the party wants to win the 2016 elections.

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