Are nomination varieties mined from Obuasi? – Kufuor asks NPP executives

Previous President John Agyekum Kufour has referred to as on all NPP executives all through the nation to defend the democratic pillar of the occasion by observing the directive from the occasion’s head workplace to allow all candidates to get nomination varieties for the occasion’s upcoming primaries.

In a rare twist of occasions, many areas of the NPP in the Ashanti area are declining some candidates’ nomination varieties and due to this fact refuting them the possibility to race within the occasion’s legislatorial primaries.

This is occurring with the approval of the regional officers of the occasion and threatens to separate the NPP as many are already aggravated and get prepared for gigantic protests and court docket actions.

The issue has continued regardless of the interference of occasion elders, founding members and even the nationwide governance of the occasion. Although nobody identifies the place the Ashanti regional chairman of the NPP and his executives draw their authority from, it appears they’re operating an altered present from what the structure of the occasion and the nationwide management of the occasion is demanding.

The latest so as to add his opinion to the debacle within the Ashanti area is former President John Agyekum Kufour. In a dialog on Kumasi-based OTEC FM, the extraordinarily revered Statesman indicated categorically that the NPP is a authorized entity with a structure which needs to be adopted by any well-meaning supporter of the occasion.

“The NPP is a democratic occasion and the facility resides with the folks. It’s the individuals who resolve who turns into MP or in any other case. The occasion does not belong to any particular person” he mentioned and added…”are nomination varieties mined in Obuasi mines?”

He mentioned the occasion is a nationwide occasion and never a neighborhood occasion and as soon as the Head workplace has spoken, all native officers need to toe the road.

The previous President Kufour offered a short historical past of the occasion specifying his position within the wealthy historical past of the occasion and enlightened the position of the democratic values of the occasion within the occasion’s evolution.

He chastised these appearing extremely vires the occasion’s structure and said that anybody going opposite to the structure and democratic ideas of the occasion are quite damaging parts who shouldn’t be within the occasion.