�They are outdoing one another over who can destroy the NPP faster and you can never win elections with this.�
Policy Analyst of the People�s National Convention (PNC), Atik Mohammed, says everything the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is doing points to the fact that they are not ready for power in 2016.
According to him, he is tired of making comments on the escalating tension in the NPP and the media war some prominent people in the party are engaging in; �with the aim of destroying the party�.
He indicated that he would rather use his time to talk about more profitable issues because �the NPP wants to destroy itself at a fast pace�.
Contributing to a panel discussion on PEACE FM's morning show �Kokrokoo�, Atik Mohammed opined �the NPP are struggling and fighting very hard to be irrelevant. An opposition party provides an alternative especially as the ruling government is underperforming but before even contesting the 2016 elections, they already want to show who is who�I don�t understand. Allow the structures to work.
What is going on is a revision of old infighting schemes between and among factions. At the end of the day the bigger picture and the collective interest is what you are destroying.�
The confusion and power struggle that has taken centre stage in the NPP is deepening by the way. Apart from the unabating media war, some executives and other kingpins in the NPP keep quoting their constitution to back their argument, making it impossible to resolve any issue; they all think they are right.
The Constitutional Committee of the NPP, a committee set to look into the proceed-on-leave brouhaha in the party on Wednesday, asked the party�s General Secretary, Kwabena Agyapong to reinstate Fred Opare Hammond and Perry Okudzeto, Directors of Finance and Communications respectively; who were asked by the General Secretary to proceed on leave.
This sparked controversies in the party again as the General Secretary described the committee�s instruction or directive as unacceptable. According to him, the committee has not even been set up for them to investigate and come out with such conclusions.
Meanwhile, a former Deputy Attorney-General and ex-Chairman of the NPP's Constitutional Committee, Hon Ayikoi Otoo has also described the committee�s instruction as �a non-solicited opinion�.
According to him, if the steering committee and the national council have �not asked for any opinion, then whose interest is this man (Prof Mike Ocquaye) serving by writing this so called legal opinion?�
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