Suspension Of Afoko: Anecdote Carried Too Far

The assumed plot to suspend National Chairman Paul Afoko by a fictitious set of members of the Disciplinary Committee is indeed a huge joke initiated and promoted by some mischief makers who are bent on ensuring that the New Patriotic Party remains stunted in growth and perpetually backward in their orchestrated struggle to hold on to power of managing opposition party.

Otherwise, how could one explain the fact that highly respected professionals would have made New Patriotic Party a permanent home of political turmoil and station for discharging lawlessness in disguise of instilling discipline?

Right from April 2014 to the beginning of this year, these mischief makers connived to make the party ungovernable to a point where three elected national officers including some constituency officers are said to be suspended for holding dissenting opinions.

Most of those in the forefront of entrenching such a regime of confusion in the party never did so out of patriotism or a desire to develop the party; their avowed interest is just to cause confusion and reap generous dividends from such confusion.

Those who signed a letter calling for the removal of Afoko and those profusely justifying same ended up serving on the campaign team as appointees or receiving monetary favours from the regime. When Chairman Afoko came to power in April 2014 majority of them made spirited overtures to his regime for one favour or the other.

When they failed to secure such favours because the knew he preferred to expend party resources on constituencies rather than dispense favours to individuals it became apparent that they were prepared to go back to the trenches for yet another process of brewing confusion in the party.

In the absence of any litigation challenging the validity of his election as chairman, some professional interlopers decided to exhume legally dead issues in any competent and reasonable court of jurisdiction.

They kept hammering on the issue of not calling weekly meetings as if their lives depended on those travels and feeding allowances.

However, when they realized that the litigations may not yield the desired dividend, they quickly resorted to cooking up false allegations for suspension plot that holds no iota of truth at all.

One wonders how Chairman and citizen of a country who cooperated with a law enforcement agency of the land can be deemed to have breached party ideals. One would wonder if it is the NPP’s wish to come and disregard state institutions just to achieve the needed uniformity desire by their flagbearer.

Every accusation leveled against Paul Afoko via Daily Guide and Joy FM platforms is not only false but in fact existing only in the figment of the imagination of those peddling such lies.

Afoko’s legal team on information had elaborately provided answers to all questions raised by anyone thinking of pointing accusing fingers at him under the circumstances, but the belligerent ‘Suspension Committee’ headed by Asante Antwi did not pay attention.

It smirks of pure mischief to turn around and lie about the same issues in order to create another bout of confusion in the party and in the minds of the general public as if Afoko is the bad nut.

As a party, I am at lost as to the energy expended by these mischief makers in creating confusion in the nation without using any of it to either confront our development challenges, the insecurity in the country or to assist victims of ‘dumsorization’.

It is ironic that to date, no individual or notable group in NPP has taken any step to state on record legal reasons why Afoko was suspended.

Those who do so are essentially not the ordinary party members who are always patriotic and supportive of genuine progress of NPP. They are also the ones who campaigned vigorously against Afoko’s election as chairman.

For those who are peddling lies about the funds diverted by Abankwah and Blay, let them know that when the dust settles all will be revealed including those who collected such monies to tour the world.

Truth is like pregnancy; it will surely be exposed one day. It is pertinent to note Chairman Paul Awentami Afoko will not be stampeded or railroad into elevating such mischief makers out of their obscurity to importance by joining issues with them whenever they carry out their mischief.

Rather, as a responsible Ghanaian, he is obligated to provide NPP electorates the much needed dividends of democracy by defending the ideals of the Dankwa-Busia-Dombo.

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