B.A Fuseini quits NDC for NPP

Alhaji B.A Fuseini, Ghana’s former Ambassador to Libya under the NDC administration has resigned from the Party, to enable him in his own words, “come home where I belong”.

Speaking to The Statesman in Tamale, Alhaji B.A Fuseini, said his greater motivation in rejoining the NPP, is the selection of Alhaji Aliu Mahama as running mate and subsequently as Vice President to President Kufuor.

He said Aliu Mahama is his brother, and as such he will find it difficult to oppose him, or ask people not to vote for him in an election. As to why he campaigned against R.I. Alhassan, running mate to Prof-Adu Boahen in 1992, who is who also his brother, B.A Fuseini said:

“It was with great difficulty that I opposed R.I Alhassan. I remember shortly after he was chosen as running mate we met to discuss the issue”. B.A. Fuseini claims that, at that meeting, “we embraced each other and wept; but he understood that, having just left the NPP to join the NDC, it would have been difficult to leave the NDC”.

The former Deputy Majority leader said by choosing Aliu Mahama as Vice President, the NPP done great honour to Northerners, which needs to be reciprocated. He therefore hopes that all Northerners will see it fit as he has seen, to vote massively for the NPP in 2004.

According to Alhaji B.A. Fuseini, some of them joined the NDC in 1992, hoping that the Party would improve the lot of Northerners. “At that time, some of us were hoping that a Northerner will be made the Speaker of Parliament. Because, if the number one and two were both from the Southern sector, then logically the number three man should have been from the North. But that was not to be”. B.A. Fuseini said.

Alhaji B.A. Fuseini was a founder of the Danquah-Busia club that later metamorphosed into the NPP. Indeed, he was the axis of the NPP in the Northern region. The Northern Regional Chairman of the NPP, Alhaji Salifu C.O.P, admits, “it was B.A. Fuseini who encouraged me to join the NPP in 1992. At that time, I had not even considered whether I should play an active role in politics or not. It was therefore most disheartening when shortly after I had joined the NPP, he left me to go off to the NDC. It was like being left alone in the middle of a forest by your guide. I felt let down”.

Alhaji B.A. Fuseini therefore does not see himself as joining the NPP, but rather rejoining. He does not also see himself as a stranger in the NPP, having been the one to plant the seeds of the NPP in the north.

Of late, the NDC has been hit by a series of desertions either by way of its leading members joining the NPP or leaving politics altogether. The Statesman has a long list of a number of prominent NDC personalities who have all declared their intention not to do business with the NDC anymore.