National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, has said the party is warming up to the work of the Commission of Inquiry into the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence.
This revelation is in sharp contrast to the party’s position on the Justice Emile Short-led Commission when it was formed two weeks ago.
“At the end of the day, whatever the Commission is doing, I think, will be useful for the country and from the processes, we NDC think they are doing a good job …We have realized that they are doing some good work,” Mr. Ofosu Ampofo told Joy Fm’s Evans Mensah.
The largest opposition party had vowed not to recognize the work of the Commission on grounds that President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had ruled the violence that marred the by-election as an isolated incident.
“The position of the NDC is very simple. This Emile Short Commission is a non-starter on the basis of its composition, obvious political colouring, and the President’s own track record,” the party said in a statement, signed by General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia.
The statement stressed: “There is no way that this Commission of his [President’s] favourites will come to any conclusions that contradict his prior statements.”
The NDC even went further to state that it will seek justice for its party members attacked by heavily armed national security operatives at a polling station at La Bawaleshie outside the Commission.
However, Mr. Ofosu Ampfo said: “We were not against the setting up of the Commission, but we felt that prosecution of attackers should take place while the Commission also does its work. Indeed we had subsequently issued statement to the effect that victims of the party who suffered from this assault are free to go to the Commission.
Source: The Ghanaian Observer
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You're disgrace to Ghana politics
Instead of allowing NPP to teach you guys sense you continue pretend as if you know. You guys have brought together a group of foollllsss and ignorantttt.
Confused NDC party.....
you see that's why I call them hen's brains. they won't reflect on anything and jump to conclusions and now see how you're disgracing yourself. as for you i have always doubted your role as a church elder because you're dichotomically a semblance of an elder in the church. aren't you the same person who stood on national television and pronounced you were leaing comfortable when elder you knew that was a total untruth. ka wo ano paado wo hom!!! Short Commission ofa wo ben?enkye wo se won nko bia?
If you ave liars leading a party this is what you get. Ofosu Ampofo and his co-liars have disgraced themselves and need to apologise to their members for deceiving them. Akufo Addo is a a wise man and so will he remain. NDC is a disgraceful party. Animguase akwaaba.
VERY VERY UNFORTUNATE. WE NEED PEOPLE OF INTEGRITY & HONOR WHO HAVE LOVE & UNDERSTANDING TO BUILD GHANA. ANYWAY, IT IS ONLY A FOOOL WHO DOES NOT CHANGE HIS OR HER MIND. WELCOME CHAIRMAN, BUT NEXT TIME BE VERY SMART TO LISTEN TO THE SILENT VOICE OF WISDOM WITHIN YOU. WE SHOULD ALWAYS BE CITIZENS AND NOT SPECTATORS. LONG LIVE GHANA.
confused people in confused party
Enyimguase nyimpa. Elder muapaa nyi