President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is not a leader who listens to the voice of the party members, according to former NPP general secretary Nana Ohene Ntow.
Expelled from the NPP for openly supporting Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen as an independent candidate in the 2024 election, Nana Ohene Ntow claimed that, in contrast to the current President, former President John Agyekum Kufuor pays attention to the concerns of party members.
In a Neat FM interview from Accra, he stated, “Recently NPP MPs who are the majority in parliament called on the president to sack Ken Ofori-Atta for poor performance.
“President Akufo-Addo said he is the president and that he [Ofori-Atta] will remain and truly he has remained till now.
“As someone representing the party, even when people in the party express concerns about something, his position is that he wields the power. We know that when party people speak Alan Kyerematen listens, and President Kufuor as well listens. But Nana Akufo-Addo when everyone speaks, says ‘yentie obiaa’ (I won’t listen to anyone),” he stated.
Ohene Ntow had earlier claimed that by standing by Alan, he had done nothing wrong.
He said that people make decisions based on the qualities of the candidate they choose, and he suggested that these factors ought to be simple.
But Yaw Buaben Asamoa, a former MP from Adentan who was also fired by the NPP, charged that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was taking over the party.
He said that extreme factionalism has caused the party to become split. He claims that Nana Addo’s government has taken power and that the president has an oppressive personality that controls the party.
Meanwhile, following a rumored cleanup exercise on Thursday, November 23, 2023, some National Democratic Congress (NDC) members were filmed on viral videos brandishing machetes around the party flagbearer John Mahama’s office complex. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has denounced these members’ actions.
