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Political Science lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Dr. Amoako Baah says the petition of the embattled National Chairman, Paul Afoko is late in arrival.

Embattled National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Paul Awentami Afoko, on Monday petitioned the National Council of the party against constitutional breaches that led to what he described as the usurpation of his post.

The petition, among other remedies, generally stated that due process was disregarded in the whole exercise to suspend him from office as national chairman.

He has, however, not ruled out other options, including resorting to the law courts, if his petition is not given any fair hearing.

But according to the Political Scientist, the petition of the suspended Paul Afoko should have started long time ago; stressing it is too late as through his failure to comply with the right process of the party has caused a death in the party.

“Afoko’s petition is a bit too late; he should have started it long time ago when he was suspended. The lawyers advising him didn’t do well in this regard. You know the party mechanism is there and so why didn’t they use it?”, he stated on Okay Fm’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show.

He stressed the petition will not remedy the harm done in the party as he (Afoko) has finished whatever he wants and now deciding to petition the very people he grossly showed disrespect to sit on his suspension.

He wondered the expectation of Paul Afoko in his petition; quizzing “what stopped him from doing this from the beginning? Has he now realized he should petition the National Council? Where were his lawyers”?

He however assured that the petition is too late as nothing relevant will come out of it due to Afoko’s rigid approach to the suspension which has caused the life of a party member; emphasizing that the Council cannot consider someone whose actions and inactions have caused two deaths in the party within a year.

“As National Chairman, he was supposed to comply with the law but rather he is persistently forcing his way back to office through other means than through the party’s procedure. Now it has been confirmed that those who demonstrated at the NPP Head office were given Gh¢100 each,” he asserted.

Dr. Amoako Baah was emphatic that Paul Afoko’s reinstatement is not possible because the issue has gone too far to the extent that someone has died; reiterating that he has worsened his chance after using some party members to use foul means to get back his position.

He insisted Paul Afoko has decided to use the right channel after his unsuccessful attempt to fight his way back to his chairmanship position; asking that “the person who died at Asawase, died for what course”?