NPP Chair Hits Nyaho – He Is Not NPP

Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe

Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ishmael Ashittey has questioned the loyalty and credibility of Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe to the party's cause.

This follows accusations by Nyaho-Tamakloe that the 2012 presidential candidate of the NPP, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo contributed to the party's supposed defeat in the Greater Accra region.

In his recently released autobiography titled, 'Never Say Die', Nyaho-Tamakloe, former Ghana's former Ambassador to the Czech Republic, accused the 2012 flagbearer of the NPP, Nana Akufo-Addo of acting in a manner which led to the lost of votes in the Greater Accra region, citing the dissolution of a four-member special regional committee.

But Mr Ashittey, who was a member of the said committee together with Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe, former Accra Mayor, Stanley Nii Adjiri-Blankson, Cecilia Bannerman and Sheikh I.C Quaye said, 'I see Nyaho-Tamakloe as somebody who is not a genuine NPP person.'

This, he explained, was because 'I've been monitoring the activities of this man for sometime; he comes onto NPP platforms, makes wild allegations trying to bring the party into disrepute and when it gets to the time of voting you don't see him.'

He denied claims that Nana Akufo-Addo contributed to the defeat of the party in the Greater Accra region.

'Nana Addo worked for over two years for him to win an election; if Nana Addo, after working tirelessly for all these times would like to win the election so he will create situations that will make him lose then…'

The Regional Chairman commented: 'He is thinking of himself and we all know where his allegiance is now; so he shouldn't be coming down to disturb anybody.'

He noted that 'we don't regard him as one of us; I blame those at the National Headquarters for accommodating him as a leading member of the NPP. I think it's now time to take a decision on him because I don't think he is a genuine NPP person'.

Apart from that, the party's chair could not fathom why Nyaho attributed the defeat of the party in the Greater Accra region to Nana Addo when the results of the presidential election were being challenged at the Supreme court.

He continued 'when you are fighting a referee in a match, you don't expect to get very far…we actually won the region; the region was stolen by the referee himself.'

He therefore suggested that Nyaho should be sacked from the party since he was creating problems for the party.

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National Youth Organiser of the NPP, Anthony Abayiifa equally believes Nyaho's comments are 'distasteful and unacceptable' probably borne out of sour grapes since he (Nyaho) contested Ashittey during the regional elections but lost to him.

The National Youth Organizer blatantly condemned Dr Nyaho for joining the fray of senior members of the party like Wereko-Brobbey and Kwame Pianim, who sought to castigate the leadership of the party and described this as 'most unfortunate.'

'Many of us in the party are not happy with statements coming from 'senior members' of our party because if members senior like this are acting this way, how do they expect the younger ones in the party to behave?' he asked rhetorically.

He therefore stressed the need for the National Chairman of the party to take action since their behaviour could affect the party, insisting that 'the corporate interest of the party must supersede people's personal and parochial interest.'

By Charles Takyi-Boadu