Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper Kweku Baako has described the internal strife in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as a "comedy of errors which has the potential to lead the party into a mutually assured destruction � MAD."
Kweku Baako, in his submissions on Peace FM, blamed the National Chairman of the NPP, Paul Afoko and General Secretary Kwabena Agyapong for the recent incidents within the party by using internal party structures to address.
According to him, the two leaders have not done enough to address the controversies and party's infighting.
Alluding to yesterday's press conference which was nearly marred by armed men who stormed the party's headquarters, the senior journalist asserted that both leaders should have resolved the grievances from the party front with the steering committee meeting.
To him, the actions taken by them should have been done in consultation with the National Executive Committee (NEC) and further insisted the leaders should not have organized the press conference, looking at the primaries ahead of the party.
�You have so many things to do. Where lies the urgency relative to personnel at the office; at the Secretariat? Who must go on leave and must not go on leave! That�s not an urgent proposition for me at this material moment,� he stated.
Speaking on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo", Mr. Baako said the National Chair and the NPP Chief Scribe committed "a fatal error by organizing that press conference", stressing that the timing was wrong.
�The fatal error of judgment that has fueled all this controversy was the press conference they held...It should never have taken place. "
Some armed supporters of the NPP yesterday stormed the party headquarters wielding cutlasses and other weapons in protest against the press conference which was being held by the National Chairman and the General Secretary.
Though, according to the General Secretary, the press conference was organized to thrash out issues regarding the proceed on leave directive given to acting Director Communications Perry Okudzeto, frenzied activists took the law into their own hands and caused chaos at the headquarters.
In the ensuing melee, some supporters sustained various degrees of injuries.
�It was a very simple elementary exercise that ought not to have created the public scene and controversy that occurred. The party lost. Those new leaders lost. The party as collective also lost. There�s always an element of collateral damage to the corporate integrity of the party. And whether they like it or not, that�s a fact,� Kweku Baako exclaimed.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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