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The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) is demanding the immediate removal of Kofi Portuphy from his position as the Coordinator for the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO). According to the party, Mr Portuphy�s continuous stay in office, weeks after being sworn in as the National Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), is unacceptable. Speaking to Citi News, the National Youth Organizer of the NPP, Sammi Awuku called on President John Mahama to sack Mr Portuphy or face their wrath. He said �this is a dangerous precedence and it also adds to the desperation of the ruling NDC because it is bad for you to have a siting national chairman of a ruling party and doubling as the boss of NADMO.� He argued that �if it happened in the NPP we will condemn it and that�s why when it is happening in the NDC we must condemn it so that it does not repeat in future governments.� Meanwhile, pressure group Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) is also threatening series of actions that will lead to the removal of Mr Portuphy from the NADMO. Chairman of AFAG, Dr. Ayew Afriyie in an interview with Citi News, was also furious with President John Mahama for still maintaining Portuphy as the NADMO Boss saying �When we talk about the president being indecisive and incompetent, people think that we are getting so much tougher on him but day in and out, he is displaying that level of ignorance and that he is not so much on top of what he is doing.� �Mr Portuphy what is in NADMO that has made you a chairman that you can�t let NADMO go? Can�t we separate NADMO from the NDC? We are asking of him to resign before we descend so much heavily on him,� he stated.