NPP Calls for Decent Inter-Party Relationship

The National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Harona Esseku has stated that the vision and role of the party in the current dispensation is to support the government and promote a new approach to inter party relationship.

Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Wednesday, he said the party is working as the backbone of the government. The party, he said, has also taken the role of ensuring that all the promises given by the government are well implemented and fulfilled.

"The party has taken the role of reversing the malpractices, incompetence and thenegligence in public life which characterised the twenty years of the (P)NDC regime."

The National Chairman said the party would not interfere in the day to day activities of government, adding, "we do not believe in the principle, the practice and the tradition of mixing up the party with the government."

He added that the NPP would strive to make multiparty democracy work in Ghana. Multiparty democracy could thrive in Ghana in spite of the unnecessary obstacles, created by those who do not believe in the concept, he noted.

He recalled, Mr. B.J. da Rocha's misunderstood statement that the NPP was ready to do business with the government. Explaining this, he said the NDC government at that time did not regard the opposition as an important factor in Ghana's political issues. As a result, throughout the eight year tenure of the NDC under the new constitution of the 4th republic, there was no interaction between the NDC and NPP as parties.

He also recalled President Kufuor's address during the Party's Annual Delegates Conference this year in the auditorium of the School of Administration during which he said that, "the NPP and its predecessor parties have known what it is to be in opposition in a hostile environment for 30 years." He solemnly pledged that now that they are in power, they will not treat the opposition in the same way they were treated when they were in opposition.