Following Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo's decision to challenge Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the current National Chairman of the party, over claims of a "dirty campaign" during the party's most recent national executive elections, tensions are running high within the hierarchy of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
According to insiders in the party, Mr. Ofosu-Ampofo has voiced his displeasure with the violent methods the current chairman has been employing in his effort to depose him.
His premeditated campaign of defamation, vilification, and character assassination against him was one of the things he brought up.
According to a recent petition to the party's Council of Elders that Daily Guide learned about, one of the main charges levelled against him is that he "is being labelled a liar, a scumbag, a crook, a scumbag." He allegedly "moles" in the NDC for our fiercest rivals, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and socializes with them, jeopardizing his position as National Chairman.
Quite amazingly, Hon. Asiedu Nketia implied in a viral video that I had introduced a company purportedly owned by Mr. Sammy Crabbe, a former national vice chairman of the NPP, for consideration to create an app for the registration of and collection of dues from NDC members. This was done to support the lie narrative that I was mingling and also involved in some sort of collusion with the NPP.
"I want to say unequivocally for the record that I did not participate in and had no influence on the decision-making process leading to the final company that received the excerpts from the petition, which said, "Contract for the NDC membership registration and dues collection project.
Another claim made in the petition is that he sold the NPP on the idea of winning the 2020 presidential elections, which led to the NDC's loss in the most recent elections.
I appointed the party's directors of elections and information technology on my own, disregarding the former president, H.E. John Dramani Mahama, who reportedly advised delaying the two appointments until the flagbearer elections in March 2019. Asiedu Nketia, a member of the House of Representatives, claims that this incident stopped the party from compiling election results in 2020 and resulted in our defeat in the election petition, which was heard in 2021 before Ghana's Supreme Court. This is wholly untrue.
"In actuality, the Functional Executive Committee (FEC) was presented with the nominees and considered and provisionally approved the list before sending it to the National Executive Committee (NEC) for final approval." The General Secretary issued and signed appointment letters to the individuals who had been appointed following NEC approval.
The petition said, "So, if I may ask, at what point can it be said that I alone appointed those officers?"
"That I asked an NPP bigwig (businesswoman) for money while accompanying the National Women's Organizer, Hon. Dr. Hannah Bissiw. He also said this, which is incorrect, and I dare him to provide me with solid proof.
In order to negotiate the sale of the Speakership of Parliament in the days leading up to the election of the Speaker of the 8th Parliament of the Republic of Ghana on the evening of January 6, 2021, I went to a businessman who supports the NPP with the company of the then General Secretary, Hon. Asiedu Nketia. "This is also untrue," he continued.
He believed that Mr. Asiedu Nketia's use of tribal politics in his campaign of outright falsehoods was an attempt to undermine his integrity because he is an Akyem, labeling him as an NPP and therefore destroying his credibility.
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