Akan MP entreats National Executives of NDC to resolve confusion

Mr Joseph Ofori, the Independent Member of Parliament for Akan constituency, has petitioned the National Executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to resolve the confusion in the area or have themselves to blame.

He appealed to the National Executives to re-conduct branch elections in the constituency to ensure sanity.

Mr Ofori, who was MP from 2008-2012 on the ticket of the NDC, said this in an interview with the GNA at a Thanksgiving Service for surviving armed attack on him last year.

He alleged that the current Branch Executives in the constituency were hand-picked by some Regional Executives in consultation with others from the Constituency level, who were known supporters of Mr Gyapong Kudjo, whom he defeated at the 2012 parliamentary polls.

Mr Ofori said people perceived to be his supporters were not issued with the party’s biometric identity cards, a clear indication of schemes to make him unpopular.

Mr Kudjo rejected the allegations and said the independent MP should mind his business and leave the party to lay the necessary structures to wrestle political power from him.

He urged the Akan MP to be mindful of the 1992 Constitution and not cause any aberrations that would trigger his removal from Parliament.

“We are strategizing to win the seat back. The Independent MP is not our problem and he should know that,” Mr Kudjo said.