NDC Action Forum calls for suspension of Obed Asamoah

The Action Forum of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called for the suspension of Dr Obed Asamoah, Treasurer of the NDC for the missing 100 million cedis until the final determination of the case before the court.

The Action Forum said Dr Asamoah should be suspended from the NDC and barred from standing for any post in the party for allowing 100 million cedis being the party's money to get missing in his house.

A Press statement signed by Mr Kwame Agyekum, Spokesman for the Sekyere West Constituency of the Action Forum, said the NDC must realise that re-organising the party for any election now or in the distant future would need an overhaul of its leadership at all levels.

The statement said unfortunately the party allowed a so-called re-organisation programme under the chairmanship of Dr Asamoah to re-state and re-affirm some of the very things that led to the defeat of the NDC and it was a pity that it was taking the party too long to learn.

The Action Forum said Dr Asamoah had demonstrated his lack of vision and must know that until and unless he proved that he was abreast with new politics that must be nurtured in the NDC he would never receive the support of the Action Forum which had a mass and quality following.

The statement denied that Mr A. K. Mensah and Asamoah Atuahene, both members of the Action Forum, had been suspended adding that letters purported to have been written to suspend them were under the singular instigation of Dr Asamoah himself at a meeting at Payicus Hotel in Accra last year.

The Action Forum said Dr Asamoah who could not keep the party's money could not keep that of the country as a president adding that the NDC would disintegrate under Dr Asamoah because he had the marks of a bully and did not respect even his own colleagues.

It said Dr Asamoah claimed he did not respond to calls of former President Jerry John Rawlings because he saw himself as a possible presidential candidate. "Dr Asamoah owes former President Rawlings a debt of apology for all the direct and indirect negative remarks be has been making against him (Rawlings)", the statement added.