Winneba (C/R) Executives of the Effutu Constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has affirmed that Dr.
James Kofi Annan remained
the endorsed Parliamentary Candidate and no amount of accusations could affect
his position.
“We assure all members, faithful and
sympathizers of the Party that we are poised towards winning the election ahead
of us for the development of Ghana and Effutu Constituency with the former
President, John Dramani Mahama, the current Flagbearer and Dr. James Kofi Annan
leading the process.
Mr. Abraham Henry Arthur, the Constituency
Secretary at a Press briefing on Friday debunked news circulating that Dr.
Annan’s candidature as the Parliamentary Candidate was null and void because it
had no constitutional basis.
The Press briefing organized by the Executives
of Effutu NDC, which was addressed by Mr Arthur stated that some news items
both in the print and electronic media, purported that some members of the
Party have been suspended unconstitutionally was also not true.
He said under no circumstances would the Party
commit such blunders and urged the public to ignore the vexatious story and
treat it with all the contempt it deserves.
The Constituency Secretary said the people
involved in the accusations were known “rented followers” of their opponent who
were doing a lot of disservice to the image of the NDC, its teeming
sympathizers, and the general public.
Explaining the circumstances that led to the
suspension of the disgruntled members, he explained that after the
Parliamentary Primaries in 2019, they failed to use Party structures to address
their grievances and demonstrated amidst casting of insinuations.
The members namely, Mr. Henry Kweku Bortsie
Ghartey, Mr. Joseph Wallace, Mr. Robert Anderson and Madam Sheba Moro, were
therefore suspended for gross indiscipline and misconduct as stated in Article
46 (8) of the Party’s Constitution.
The issue was referred to the Central Regional
Disciplinary Committee of the Party.
Another member, Mr. Alexander Dadzie (Neenyi
Akramah) was also suspended on Thursday, March 19, for misconducting himself
and the matter had also since been referred to the Regional Executives.
He further explained that, the suspended members
flouted Article 45 of the Party’s constitution and have been acting against the
dictum of the laid down procedures, and doing things in the Party’s name after
their suspension.
To aggravate their case, on Thursday April 23,
these aggrieved members attempted to disrupt a press conference being organized
by the Constituency Executives at the Party Office.
The Executives and some Party faithful came out
only for the aforementioned members to engage them in a scuffle and in the
ensuing encounter, some people were alleged to have been manhandled.
Mr Arthur said, the wake-up call for the
Constituency was that any such acts of indiscipline and lawlessness will not be
tolerated henceforth, by the Party.
The Party has therefore declared the suspended
individuals “No longer members of the Party” and warned them not to parade
themselves as members of the Party.
Source: Ghana News Agency