The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, has reacted angrily to comments by the Minority Leader in Parliament, Mr Haruna Iddrisu that the National Democratic Congress would resist any attempt by the Akufo-Addo led government to remove Mrs Charlotte Osei from office.
He has asked the MP to “shut up” and recall the trauma they put several appointees through when the NDC won power in 2008.
In an interview with Peacefmonline.com, Chairman Wontumi as he is affectionately called, noted that the NDC were fond of sacking appointees they perceived to be NPP when they were in power and are currently worried the NPP will pay them back in their own coin.
“In January 2009 when the NDC took over, the Central Committee of the National Union of Harbour Employees sent the first request calling on President John Evans Atta Mills to sack Mr Ben Owusu Mensah, Director General (DG) of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA).
The trend they set affected former Chief Justice, Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood; a number of Ministers of State and Members of Parliament; District Chief Executives; Inspector General of Police, Paul Tawia Quaye; Reverend Dr Asante Antwi, former Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church and the Arch-Bishop Palmer Buckle of the Accra Diocese of the Catholic Church”, he recounted.
The current Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Charlotte Osei has come under attack following a petition that has been sent to the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo to impeach her.
Shortly after news went viral that some aggrieved staff of the EC had sent petitions calling for the impeachment of Mrs. Charlotte Osei, the Minority Leader in Parliament, Mr Haruna Iddrisu warned that the NDC would not sit unconcerned for President Akufo-Addo to carry out his purported strategy to oust the EC boss from office just as he had used similar strategy to sack some heads of public institutions since he assumed office.
But Chairman Wontumi claims the swift response from the NDC scribe, shows clearly that the previous government strategically made Mrs. Charlotte Osei the EC boss to gain political and electoral favours.
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