Controversial NPP activist, Baah Acheamfuor has condemned some of his party’s executives for getting involve in Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA) demonstration which flouts the party’s procedure of organizing and joining a demonstration.
According to him, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has laid down procedures to either organize or join demonstrations, indicating the party’s executives who led the party into the Let My Vote Count Alliance to demand for new voters’ register didn’t seek approval from any of the executive bodies of the party.
Speaking on Okay Fm’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, Baah Acheamfuor alluded to the point that the National Executive Committee, the Steering Committee and the National Council didn’t give any sanction for the party to join in last Wednesday'S demonstration which turned bloody.
Inasmuch as he agreed to the constitutional right for civil groups like LMVCA, AFAG and MFC to organize demonstration to press home their demand for new voters’ register, the vociferous NPP activist insisted it was wrong for his party to join in the demonstration which does not have the approval of National Chairman, Paul Afoko and General Secretary, Kwabena Agyepong.
He however described the action by those executives like John Boadu, NPP National Organizer, Sammy Awuku, National Youth Organizer, Bernard Antwi Boasiako the Ashanti Regional Chairman and host of other past NPP executives as “illegal” for joining in a demonstration which didn’t pass through the party’s structure.
“I believe it is illegal that the NPP joined in the demonstration without the sanction of the NEC, Steering Committee or National Council…NPP has a lay down procedure to join or organize demonstrations but they join this demonstration without any authority approval”, he chided.
What he considered more worrisome in the demonstration was when the NPP’s Flagbearer, Nana Akufo Addo’s branded party t-shirt was used by some party members, thereby denting the image of the party leader in a picketing which violated court order to use approved routes.
He bemoaned the involvement of the NPP in the demonstration which ended in a defiant way goes contrary to the beliefs of the NPP as a law-abiding party which has been the party’s attribute over the years.
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