NDC boils at Ayawaso party activities suspended

NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS   HEAD OFFICE – ACCRA

The Ayawaso Central constituency of the governing National Democratic Congress has suspended all party activities in protest of what it termed “negative interference” in it affairs. The constituency which is blaming the leadership of the party at the region for the current woes wants three people held responsible for any untoward development in the aftermath of the suspension. The three are: Greater Accra Regional Chairman, Ade Coker, the Deputy Regional Minister Isaac Nii Njanmah Vanderpuije and the Parliamentary Candidate William Afum Annie-Adjei. This was contained in a letter written by the constituency chairman Ebenezer Arkutu to the party’s General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia. “This decision was unanimously reached by the Constituency Executive Committee at an emergency meeting held on Saturday 13th February, 2016,

” the letter said in part with President Mahama, NDC’s National Functional Executive Committee and Council of Elders in copy. “This decision has everything to do with the selection and appointment of Members to the Accra Sub-Metropolitan District (i.e. Councilors),” the letter revealed. When the Regional Chairman of NDC, Joseph Kwabena Ade Coker, was contacted he declined to comment on anything relating to the Ayawaso Central constituency.

Find below a copy of the letter

MR. JOHNSON ASEIDU NKETIA
THE GENERAL SECRETARY
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS
HEAD OFFICE – ACCRA

Dear Sir,

INDEFINITE SUSPENSION OF ALL POLITICAL ACTIVITIES

The National Leadership is hereby informed of the indefinite suspension of all political activities in the Ayawaso Central Constituency with an immediate effect due to the continuous negative interference in the legitimate mandate of the Constituency Executive Committee by the Greater Accra Regional Party.

This decision was unanimously reached by the Constituency Executive Committee at an emergency meeting held on Saturday 13th February, 2016.

This decision has everything to do with the selection and appointment of Members to the Accra Sub-Metropolitan District (i.e. Councilors).

 For the peace of the Party and possible exploitation by the Media, at this stage we reserve privately for your benefit our grievances for just settlement.

The Greater Accra Regional Chairman, Ade Coker, the Deputy Regional Minister Isaac Nii Njanmah Vanderpuije and the Parliamentary Candidate William Afum Annie-Adjei are to be held responsible for this decision and for any future action to be embarked on by the majority of the grassroots’ in the Constituency for the protection of their rights and place in the Party.

We look forward to your intervention to enable the Constituency to return to work, the work of grassroots’ activism particularly mobilization towards the upcoming limited registration exercise in March, 2016 to ensure electoral victory for the Party.
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
EBENEZER ARKUTU CHAIRMAN

Cc:
The National Functional Executive Committee
The President, the Leader of the Party
The Council of Elders
The Greater Accra Regional Minister
Chairman, the NDC Greater Accra Region