NPP will start fighting soon – Bagbin predicts

Alban Bagbin, former Majority Leader

The former Majority Leader Alban Bagbin has stated that the New Patriotic Party will fail if the seeming tensions within the party are not resolved.

According to the second deputy Speaker of Parliament, the divisions with NPP government will also hinder Ghana’s progress and economic development.

“With what is happening…you [NPP] cannot develop Ghana and mark it, very soon they will start fighting among themselves,” the Nadowli Kaleo MP said Thursday during the NDC’s silver jubilee lecture.

Hon. Bagbin also blamed the NDC loss in the 2016 elections on the parties over reliance on the state media allowing the NPP to form an alliance with the private media.

He added that the party can only return to power after an objective introspection and address the issues that contributed to the party’s loss.

“It is for us to do an introspection and try and put a system in place to prevent a third world war…we need to go back for the earlier values. You cannot have democracy without creating the culture of integrity and that is the true genesis of our party but we are jettisoning all,” he said.

The NDC is marking its Silver Jubilee with a series of activities within the year.

In a statement issued by Deputy General Secretary Koku Anyidoho on Wednesday, June 7, it said: “the party is rolling out a year-long plan to mark its Silver Jubilee countrywide under the theme: Mirroring the Past into the Future”.
There will be Muslim prayers on Friday, June 9 followed by a rally at Ashaiman Mandela Park on Saturday, June 10 at 1pm.

The main speakers at the rally include party founder Jerry John Rawlings, former President John Mahama, NDC Chairman Kofi Portuphy, General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, and Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu.

There will be a church service on Sunday, June 12 to crown the four-day programme.