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Dr. Arthur Kobina Kennedy, former Flagbearer Aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) says his critics about the happenings in his party is to make sure the party leaders realize the problem and address it accordingly.

According to him, nobody should fault him for the happenings in the media as he didn’t first send issues of the party to the public, blaming it on the party faithfuls who send information to the Daily Guide and the Statesman newspapers for publications.

Speaking on Okay Fm’s "Ade Akye Abia" Morning Show, Dr. Arthur Kennedy, also a founding member of the party urged people accusing him of washing the party’s dirty linen in public to stop as he is only commenting on an issue already in the public domain.

“I didn’t send this first to the public; I don’t own a newspaper- Daily Guide is not for me and I have never owned the Statesman and so those saying I am washing our dirty linen outside, they sent the dirty linen to the public and we are commenting on it,” he stated.

“If they don’t want our linen to be washed in public then they should stop making it dirty. If you carry machetes and guns to party headquarters to beat up your chairman and General Secretary, you should not be surprise you are making news….I should be commended because I am doing God’s work in the NPP; I’m doing this because I love NPP. I am telling the truth that I see in the party; if anybody is saying I’m telling lies, they should challenge come out to challenge me,” he dared.

He maintained that it is 18 months to elections but the work of NPP’s Presidential candidate has been reduced to removing duly elected party executives; insisting “it is wrong, it was a mistake and it will lead us to defeat in 2016”.

Explaining his reason for bringing this concern to the public, Dr. Arthur Kennedy said he wanted everybody to be a witness to what he is saying; indicating that just as he warned the party against the “All-die-be-die” mantra in public, nobody would have accepted that he was against that mantra if he had advised the party quietly.

“I told them that ‘All-die-be-die’ mantra was a mistake and they disagreed with me and these praise-singers made it a platform chorus and made a t-shirt out of it and the profit was a defeat in 2012 election…if they had advised him, Nana Addo would be at the Flag Staff House whenever you look for him,” he stated.