Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide, Kweku Baako says the suspended National Chairman of the NPP, Paul Afoko's days in the opposition party are effectively over and has dared him to call a high-level meeting "to prove the king is not naked".
Speaking to host Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo", Kweku Baako noted that the suspended NPP Chairman Paul Afoko has lost the moral right to steer affairs in the party.
According to him, all avenues have almost closed in on Mr. Afoko as National Chairman.
His comments comes on the heels of two well-attended meetings by the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) and National Council on Tuesday to among other things, affirm their support for NPP’s acting chairman, Freddie Blay.
Prior to the holding of the two separate meetings, the beleaguered Chairman issued a release cautioning NPP’s NEC members against attending the meeting called by acting National Chairman Freddie Blay because he (Afoko) had filed a writ in court seeking an injunction on his suspension.
Any such meeting would be "illegal", Mr Afoko stated.
But addressing the issue further on PeaceFM, Mr. Baako stated emphatically that "it is unnecessary for him to still hold himself as the National Chairman of the party…as I keep saying, to prove the king is not naked he should call a meeting."
To the Senior Journalist, Mr Afoko has "effectively lost the political war. What remains is that they have some residual battles to fight looking at their own posturing and utterances and things. You can identify that some legal actions remain – two levels – within the party and outside the party. Within the party is that with the appeal proceedings in their constitution, you have 21 days to appeal if it indeed was illegal or unconstitutional…It can be cured. The mischief can be cured from within.
“Otherwise, alternatively, you have court to go…Assuming in the most unlikely situation, he wins any of these legal battles or both; I wonder if the moral political authority to preside over the party as a Chairman really will not have been lost.”
He earnestly believed Mr. Afoko may have also subjected himself to public ridicule for having a tag dangling around his neck and prancing as NPP National Chairman, during the two-day forum by the Electoral Commission on the voters register.
“As a political analyst, I cannot imagine Mr. Afoko, even if he wins the legal battle; can have the moral and political authority to steer affairs in the party. It’s gone." |
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