A member of the communication team of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has asked members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to vote against their regional executives for contributing to party’s defeat in the 2016 polls.
Nana Boakye said they should call for early congress to enable them vote out what he describes as incompetent executives “instead of wasting their time talking about attacks”.
“Executives of the NDC have disappointed supporters of the party. They lost in almost all the regions and you sit there without doing anything? I am calling on my friends in NDC to rise up and chase the executives out and call for early congress” he stated.
Nana Boakye was commenting on the violent attacks on NDC and other public institutions across the country.
Shortly after the Electoral Commission declared Akufo-Addo winner of the 2016 election on December 9, 2016, there has been a democratization of violence across the country.
The violence has seen supporters, said to be with the NPP attacking public institutions like NADMO, Youth Employment Agency, NHIS offices across the country.
The supporters claim those offices have been filled with supporters of the NDC and they want them out.
There have also been attacks on public toilets, toll booths, all across the country with the assailants seeking to take over the running of those installations.
There have been injuries and damages to properties, a sad repeat of what happened in 2008 when the NPP lost power to the NDC. Though there has been some arrests, the situation still persist.
But Nana Boakye accused leaders of the NDC for using the non-existent attacks as a means to divert attention from investigations into what led to their humiliating defeat to the NPP.
“Why are the leaders of the party talking about attacks when they know they are the cause of those attacks? They are only inciting their supporters and doing so just to divert attention from their defeat.
“Supporters should wise up and not pay attention to them because it won’t help them. The best option right now is to chase them out. Vote against them to serve as deterrent to others” he declared on an Accra based Okay fm.
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