In recent times, the attitude put up by some New
Patriotic Party (NPP) big shots who held key positions in the party’s 2012
campaign for Nana Addo has brought to the fore, the curious question on whether
they were friends who whole heartedly worked for Nana Addo to win presidential
victory or they were rivals who harbored the same presidential ambition he was
nursing and therefore worked as foes to let him down as a matter of strategy.
These strategic-rivals, were part of those
complaining of a so-called ‘Akyem Mafia’ around Nana Addo in 2008 and succeeded, in 2012, in getting him to dissolve and block out some of the key persons in the so called ‘mafia’.
Interestingly, the rivals who took over the campaign did not only mafia the
party members; Nana Addo himself was the worst hit casualty.
Kofi
Konadu Appraku
Dr. Kofi Konadu Appraku, a key player in the
Nana-Addo 2012 campaign was speculated to be campaigning for a 2016
presidential ambition even when the Nana Addo campaign was in full swing.
Though there was empirical evidence to back this claim, it could not have
surfaced from ‘venus’ as a fairy tale.
The same Dr. Appraku has finally confessed he has
the same ambitions Nana Addo was and is having. Dr. Appraku says he wants to be
the NPP Presidential candidate for 2016. Dr. Appraku has confirmed this in a
statement issued by his ‘aide’, a certain Odaimon Kwadwo Abobra.
It is curious to know how long Dr. Appraku has
nursed this ambition. Even before JA Kufour became president, Dr. Appraku did
not hide his interest in the presidency. Fortunately he was not pivotal in the
JA Kufour 2000 campaign and Kufour won. Appraku contested Nana Addo in 2007,
had some embarrassing 17 votes or less out of some 600, became key in Nana
Addo’s campaign in 2008 and Nana Addo lost.
In 2012, Appraku again played a key role in Nana
Addo’s campaign and again, Nana Addo lost. Then Appraku pops up and announces
he wants to replace Nana Addo for 2016. And he is a friend who wanted Akufo
Addo to win 2008 and 2012. Maybe he had shelved his ambition by then because
Nana Addo was a friend.
This same Appraku who DOES NOT want to drag the
NPP’s name into disrepute and public ridicule has told the whole world, in his
press statement that some party members
had unleashed their “rented press” and
“some snake-tongued persons within the party had been hired” to detract
him from his presidential agenda. Appraku says these ‘party members’ are
persons who feel threatened by his decision to contest Nana Addo for the
party’s flag-bearer post.
Impliedly this was done by his rivals….Nana Addo,
not excluded.
Sir
John
Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, the party’s general secretary
is one ‘friend’ of Nana Addo who in his
attempt to ‘please and do Nana Addo a lot of good’, decided to compromise the
neutrality of the party’s executive by going public with his unnecessary
statement that Nana Addo would contest 2016. Why show your bias and make people
question it when you could have done so behind closed doors?
What a friend? Until the party recently secured a
place for Sir John to lay his head at night, he was lodging at the Kofi Osei
Ameyaw owned Royale Mirage Hotel. The least said about the type of meetings
that were held at that hotel, the better. After all it is not hidden anymore
that Kofi Osei Ameyaw, himself, also has the same agenda 2016 ambition.
Kofi
Osei Ameyaw
The difference is that Osei Ameyaw’s agenda 2016 is
not for Dr. Appraku or Nana Addo. It is for himself!!!
That then brings into question how long Osei Ameyaw
had nursed this ambition. He was part of Nana Addo’s kitchen cabinet that
planned to get his allies contest for executive positions in the party. Osei wanted
to be National Treasure. He did not make it and since then, little was seen of
him in the 2012 campaign.
Jake
Obetsebi Lamptey
Jake, a party chairman stands akimbo and silently
observes with a grin the unfortunate internal party mudslinging against senior
captains. Jake seem not to understand that though the ongoing attacks and
counter attacks may well satisfy the petty parochial political interests of a
few selfish minds, it would also
certainly have an adverse impact on the already challenged party unity.
It is this passive attitude of Chairman Jake that
raises the question whether ‘there are no elders in the house’. When we ask if
there is no elder in the house, we are not meaning an elder who is aged in
years, we are referring to a mature brain and a concerned heart who can call
the warring factions to order and drum in to their heads some common sense that
party should and must be put first, before individual interests.
This is a party chairman, who instead of working
towards the party’s internal unity thinks it is in Nana Addo’s interest for him
to also display his bias and favoritism towards him to the vexation of several
important party big shots.
He won’t even take responsibility for the party’s
inability to win elections but says he wants to contest again to remain party
chairman.
Nana
Akomea
Which Director of Communications who knows his left
from his right would be openly contradicting and disagreeing with his party’s
General Secretary right in the media.
A Director of Communications who was quick to
abandon his post, even before he was asked to. As if the position was causing
some injury to him so he was in a haste to relinquish. Perhaps, the chips are
down now that the court case is over so there is no need to hang on. Nice
Friend.
TO
BE CONTINUED…
The campaign
manager Boakye Agyrko who also wants to
be president, the Lord Commey who thinks the job of Campaign Director of
Operations means following the candidate from village to village, the Gabby
Otchere Darko who is good at strategies for Ghana’s minority elite but a
disaster at understanding the language of the masses and, the vanished Boniface
Sadique, the nowhere to be seen Hajia Alima Mahama the Kennedy Agyeapong who thinks talking loose is what sells Nana
Addo would be treated in next edition.
Source: DAYBREAK
