Award winning investigative journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni has revealed some cracks within the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
The journalist has chronicled and compared the system of governance from former President John Agyekm Kufuor’s era to the incumbent Nana Akufo-Addo. In his write-up, he described how the Akufo-Addo led administration and current NPP leadership have overthrown democracy and instituted dictatorship within the party.
A situation he blames for the poor performance in the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections. The journalist when on to predict the future of the NPP if certain individuals within the party continue to be more powerful than the party.
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Manasseh Azure Awuni writes…
*THE GODS ARE TO BLAME!
Approving Akufo-Addo’s budget has become a slideshow of comedy that has implications for the entire nation. It is because the NPP does not have a clear majority to have pushed their way through. The NPP had a clear majority going into the 2020 election.
They thought there was no way the NDC would close the gap and overtake them. But they didn’t think well. Apart from the fact that the Akufo-Addo administration had turned out to be a monumental failure and disappointed many voters, the NPP started to dig a more serious grave for its parliamentarians.
Some MPs thought the democratic system that got them into parliament should be set aside in order to protect their interest.
They said some MPs were too good to be allowed to compete in the internal primaries. So what did they do? When nominations were opened, the national executives connived with some candidates to deny their competitors nomination forms.
They were denied the opportunity to take part in the intra-party contest. They and their followers protested, but no one would listen to them. How do you think they would vote? Those who could not take the nonsense decided to go independent.
The party arrogantly expelled them. Akufo-Addo was going about saying he would not work with independent candidates. But God, they say, has a wicked sense of humor. When it mattered most, it was a man the NPP had expelled from the party for going independent they relied on to give them the slimmest parliamentary majority in the history of Ghana.
The NPP, unlike the NDC, was founded on solid democratic credentials. Some of us who were too young to notice the beginning witnessed how democratic, tolerant and civilised the party was when a certain John Agyekum Kufuor led it.
That democratic culture has degenerated into a cult. You either worship that cult or you’re thrown out. And the future can only be bleaker if certain individuals continue to be more powerful than the party.
Source:dailyghanaianguide
