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It’s Gradually Becoming Obvious That Power Will Once Again Elude The Opposition New Patriotic Party Come 2016, As The Rank And File Of The Party Continues Their Bickering Over The Control For The Soul Of The Wobbling Party.

While Many Had Thought The Leadership Struggle Tearing The Party Apart Ahead Of Their Last Congresses To Elect New National Officers And A Flag Bearer For The 2016 Elections Would Have Died-Down; The Murky Situation In The Largest Opposition Party Is Rather Assuming A Frightening Dimension With Glaring Indications The Party Is Not Ready To Come To Power Any Time Soon.

Party Insiders Are Blaming NPP Twice Defeated Presidential Candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo And His Associates For Fueling The Ongoing Internecine Struggle In The Party By Their Moves To Subvert The Party’s National Chairman, Paul Afoko And General Secretary, Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, Whom They Are Accusing Of Disloyalty.

While Rumors Of Nana Akufo-Addo’s Disdain For Afoko And Kwabena Agyapong Has Severally Been Rubbished By His Handlers And Fanatics, One Of His (Nana Akufo-Addo) Trusted Lieutenants And Financier Recently Let The Cat Out Of The Bag As He Was Captured On Tape Revealing The Former Foreign Affairs Minister’s Suspicion Of The Duo Of Not Working To Advance His Third Time Presidential Bid.

After Failing To Get His Preferred Candidates To Take Over The Positions Of National Chairman And General Secretary Respectively At The Tamale Congress Of The Party, Nana Akufo-Addo Is Reported Desperately Working To Remove The Two Elected National Officers He Suspects Belong To His Longtime Rival, Ala Kyeremanteng’s Camp.

This, A Party Source Has Disclosed To The Al-Hajj, Has Sparked A New Wave Of Consternation Within The Party And It Is Threatening Its Survival.

Reports Are That Afoko, Kwabena Agyapong And Sammy Crabbe Are Still Being Tagged As “Party Spoilers” And Are Sidelined From Sensitive Discussions Relating To How Nana Akufo-Addo Will Prosecute The 2016 Campaign.

The Former Abuakwa South Legislator Is Alleged To Have Installed Convention Peoples Party Former MP Turned-First-Vice-Chairman, Freddie Blay, As National Chairman While Reducing Paul Afoko To Ceremonial Position.
This Has Sometimes Led To Shameful Public Disagreements Over Party Issues Between The NPP Duly Elected National Chairman, Paul Afoko And The Akufo-Addo ‘Recognized-Chair’, Freddy Blay. Recently, The Two NPP Heavyweights Clashed On A Local Radio Station In Accra Over Modalities In Organizing Constituency Primaries.

While Freddie Blay Was On Radio Advocating For All Incumbent Mps, Mostly Pro-Nana Akufo-Addo, Are Allowed Automatic Ticket To Contest The 2016 Elections Without Going Through Primaries, Paul Afoko Called Into The Program To Rubbish His Vice Chairman’s Statement.

According To Chairman Afoko, The Statement Did Not Represent The Position Of The Party And That Freddie’s Statement Should Be Treated As His Personal Opinion.

Again, Only Last Week, Paul Afoko And Freddy Blay Clashed Over The Party’s Decision To Institute Investigations Into A Leaked Tape Containing Explosive Comments Allegedly Made By The Northern Regional Chairman Of The Party, Daniel Bugri Naabu.

While Freddie Blay Claimed It Was Needless To Investigate The Bugri Naabu Tape, Paul Afoko And Kwabena Agyapong Insisted A Forensic Audit Be Carried Out To Get To The Bottom Of The Matter, Especially When The Northern Regional Chairman Has Come Out To Deny The Voice On The Tape.

On The Purported Tape, A Voice Claimed To Be That Of Mr. Bugri Naabu, A Trusted Lieutenant And Bankroller Of Nana Akufo-Addo’s Campaign, Described How The Former Foreign Affairs Minister In The Kufuor Administration Has Arrogated To Him (Bugri Naabu), First Vice Chairman, Freddie Blay And Other ‘Loyalists’ The Power To Take Decisions On Behalf Of The Party On The Blind Side Of The Beleaguered National Chairman And General Secretary.

Daniel Bugri Naabu, On The Tape Reiterated Nana Akufo-Addo’s Long-Standing Position That Paul Afoko And Kwabena Agyapong Are Devotees Of His Fiercest Rivals, Ex-President Kufuor And Alan Kwadwo Kyeremanten.

According To The Man Who Issued A ‘Fatwa’ Demanding An Investigation Of Delegates In The Northern Region Who Voted Against Nana Addo At The Party’s Congress Said, Afoko And Kwabena Agyapong Are Agents Of The Ruling NDC Government Working To Scuttle Nana Addo’s Chances In Next Year’s Polls.

He Said The Duo Were Funded By The Governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) Through National Security To Win Their Respective Positions At The Party’s Tamale Congress In Order To Put A Spanner In Nana Akufo-Addo’s Dream Of Becoming President In 2017.

While Entreating Minions Of The Former Abuakwa South Legislator To Redouble Their Efforts In Projecting Nana Akufo-Addo, Bugri Naabu Also Accused Kwabena Agyapong Of Receiving GHC200, 000 Bribe From The NDC, Which He Alleged Was Channeled Through The National Security.
He Also Alleged That The National Security Is Providing Security And Telephone Services To The Two Beleaguered NPP National Executives.

While Singling Out His Fellow Northern Politician, Paul Afoko, And Describing Him As “Useless Person” Who Knows Nothing About Politics, The Nana Akufo-Addo Right-Hand Man Also Accused Kwabena Agyapong Of Plotting Nana Addo’s Defeat To Fortify His (Agyapong’s) Chances Of Contesting The NPP Flag Bearer Race For The 2020 Elections.

In A Related Development, A Senior Member Of The Party, Joshua Yahaya Kwota, Has Petitioned The Leadership Of The Party To, As Matter Of Urgency, Suspend The Party’s Northern Regional Chairman For Gross Indiscretion.

Although Bugri Naabu Has Denied The Content Of The Tape, Yahaya Kwota Reminded The Party Hierarchy Of A Similar Incident In The Party Which Was Thoroughly Investigated. “You Can Recall During The National Executive Contest, There Was A Letter Alleging That One Of The Aspirants Was Involved In Cocaine, The Party Went As Far As To Interpol To Institute Investigations And The Candidate’s Vetting Was Suspended Until Investigations Was Completed.

“So I Want This Tape To Be Investigated To Indicate That, The Voice Was Not The True Voice Of Bugri Naabu Before He Could Be Re-Instated,” He Insisted.

Mr. Yahaya Kwota Also Made Reference To The Infamous Kofi Adams Case, The Former NDC Deputy General Secretary Now The National Organizer, Who Was Suspended For His Alleged Involvement In A Tape Scandal Until He Was Cleared.

He Charged The Leaders Of NPP To Remember “Dr. Wereko-Brobbey Who Is Under Suspension So That It Does Not Look Like There Are People In The Party Who Can Take The Laws Into Their Own Hands And Do Or Say Whatever They Want And Go Scot Free Whereby Others Cannot”.

Yahaya Kwota Added ‘’Some Of Us Would Say The Truth Because We Have Suffered For This Party And We Cannot Afford To Lose 2016 Elections So I Call On The National Executives To Deal With This Matter With Urgent Attention’’.