Overwhelming rage, extreme anger and bitterness, characterized the press conference organized by the NPP YOUTH FOR VICTORY 2024, a group of experienced professional men and women of the NPP with a common purpose to pull resources together (financial, logistics, and manpower) to ensure that the NPP Breaks the 8 come 2024 general elections.
In his statement, Jerry John Campbell, the spokesperson for the group indicated that, prior to the recent National Delegates Conference a communique was issued from the NPP Headquarters pointing out clearly what each potential candidate and their supporters ought not to do.
We found candidates complying with these directives and we want to commend all those who did, and to appreciate your respect for law and order.
He then stressed that supporters of the 'desperate' vice president were spotted flouting the rules of engagement by wearing Bawumia branded T-shirts to the grounds some of whom confided in us that they were given the T-shirt and Ghc 10 to come and cheer up the Vice President. Amazingly, as though the Bawumia branded T-shirt was equivalent to accreditation card, all those wearing the printed shirts were granted access to the conference grounds to come and deliberately disturb the peace of delegates to think for the party. He said, they saw bill boards of the vice president raised by a group calling itself “friends of Bawumia” and our shameless national officers looked on and took no action to bring such nuisance to order.
Jerry John, vehemently retorted that a similar issue happened during the celebration of the final Adae Kese Festival, where supporters of Dr. Bawumia displayed placards, t-Shirts and banners of the so-called Friends of Bawumia, even after the issuing of the code of conduct. This he said, happened right in front of the General Secretary John Boadu and Chairman Wuntumi and at no point did any of them call this action to order either at the event or even after the event. He indicated that its a show of selective application of the code which is not proper for the development of our party.
Jerry John, fuming with rage, stipulated that another issue they sadly observed at the conference is the intentional breach of protocol as a propagandist way of launching Bawumia campaign.
He said, protocol demands the President should be the last dignitary to be seated at such functions, yet for this staged Delegates Conference, the Vice President, who seemed to have forgotten all proper protocols decided to come late to the conference after the president was seated and to disturb the sanctity of same. Up to this time, the leadership of the party has not even coughed about it .
With a very low but piecing voice Jerry John said, the key pillar on which the NPP stand is the motto “Development in Freedom”.
“We do acknowledge that the leadership of His Excellency Nana Akufo-Addo is doing well by providing development in Ghana, He has done so much that can help the party to retain power. However the Freedom of expression in the New Patriotic Party has been defiled and abused, manipulated and misused by the holders of the keys to the powers that be. Whiles it is a crime to openly support some other candidates, it is as if it is an acceptable norm to support some others, this is like the animal kingdom saying that all NPP members are equal but Bawumia is more equal than others.
This behavior seems to have amassed a lot of hatred for the Vice President. His perceived presidential ambition should not become a reason to butcher others with similar or perhaps better chances to lead the great elephant party into the 2024 general elections”.
“Again, we have observed how the Campaign Team (for want of a better word) of Bawumia are moving from constituency to constituency campaigning, meeting delegates and potential delegates and giving them money to support the Vice President’s bid. It will be a dent on the integrity of National officers of NPP if they claim not to have seen this, but the question is what have they done about it? If it were another candidate, maybe that person would be suspended if not sacked from the party. Why are we killing those who bled for this party to stand for the sake of someone who came from nowhere to enjoy power and prominence in our party?
He ranted that, they cannot finish with the press conference without speaking to the recent happenings at the Northern Region. He said, the sad part is the Regional Chairman himself has confirmed supporting the bid of the Vice President and yet is sacking communicators from the party for attending events that are perceived to talk about Alan Kyerematen. Whether this is wizardry or myopia, we expect that as soon as the matter broke the national secretariat should have called the parties to order and kill the hypocrisy before it is escalated, but perhaps because it is they who are behind such shameful dismissals, our national secretariat has been loudly quiet about it.
Mr. Jerry John Campbell in his concluding statement said, another electoral victory for the NPP is an automatic key to ensure the continuity in the development of Ghana our mother land and we will not mince words but will speak directly to the powers that be, and boldly confront you to sit up, you stand to gain more if we win power and yet your attitude is less of bravado and more of puppets of mediocrity, this must stop before we start a campaign to ensure that no national officer is retained. You are therefore kindly advised to play by the very book you have written Jerry John Campbell confidently said.
For us, victory is all we need, and we will go at all ends to make sure it does not elude us.
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