The
Communications Director of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP),
Nana Akomea has expressed disappointment in Mr. Kwame Pianim, a member
of the party, for making disparaging remarks about the decision taken by
the leadership to boycott certain key national events including the
vetting of ministerial nominees of President John Mahama and his State
of the Nation Address.
Mr. Pianim, an outspoken politician,
business economist and investment consultant in an exclusive interview
with Africawatch blamed the NPP national executives for exhibiting
“intellectual and mental laziness”
According to him, the party is heading in the wrong direction.
Mr. Pianim added that “the boycott [of the President’s inauguration] somehow portrayed the NPP executives as confused people”.
Mr.
Pianim had called for “an emergency national congress of the party to
decide on its boycott of certain key national events” and other
activities involving the President.
Kwame Pianim speaking in an
interview with Joy FM, an Accra-based radio station, also noted that the
NPP’s boycott which the leadership says is in furtherance of the
party’s position regarding the 2012 Presidential elections, for which
they are challenging the results at the Supreme Court in hope to
overturn the legitimacy of President Mahama, poses danger to the future
of the party.
According to him, the NPP leadership is “not
thinking logically” and so, is going down “a dangerous slope” as a
result of the decision to distance themselves from all events headlining
the President.
He argued that though the NPP under the auspices
of its 2012 Presidential candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, his
Running mate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and the party’s National Chairman,
Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, has dragged the President and the Electoral
Commission to court seeking redress over their electoral fraud case;
according to the constitution of the land, President Mahama was
legitimately elected until proven otherwise by the Supreme Court.
But
Nana Akomea has described the comments as unfortunate saying he (Mr.
Pianim) should have “availed himself” by conferring with the party
leadership before making a public declaration of his position.
He
held the view that; “The issues that Mr. Pianim chose to raise in the
media, the party views them as unfortunate…it will be very good for all
of us if prominent people like Mr. Kwame Pianim will just approach the
party; the Chairman says that Mr. Pianim has not bothered to even speak
to him about the issues he’s talking about which is unfortunate because
we must pull together.”
He asserted in an interview with Citi FM
Tuesday morning that Mr. Pianim “doesn’t support our challenging the
results…he doesn’t support the challenge that we have put up at the
court.”
He further explained that the party’s decision to pursue
its case in the court was mandated by the National Council which he said
is the second highest decision-making body of the party and so, the
leaders “are convinced that our actions will inure to the benefits of
the party.
We are absolutely convinced about that unless anybody can
point anything to the contrary. If you can show me that this decision
or this action is having a negative impact. If you can demonstrate it to
me, then we can talk but as far as we’re concerned, the decisions we
have taken, the actions we have taken in Parliament, outside Parliament
and so on inure to the benefits of the party.”
“The decision for
example to boycott the inauguration of President Mahama as one platform
of protest was not a decision taken by one or two people. It was a
decision taken by the National Council, not everybody would agree but it
is a decision that is properly taken,” he added. |
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