Pressure is intensifying on the Minister for Trade and Industry, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, one of the Presidential candidate hopefuls of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), to disassociate himself from the distasteful comments expressed by the Operations Director for his campaign, Hopeson Adorye.
The beleaguered Hopeson Adorye said over the weekend in the Ashanti region at a health walk organized by Friends of Alan that the Dombo (Northerners) block of the NPP were only fit for the running mate position in the party and gave a chronology of the governing party’s Presidential pairing since the start of the Fourth Republic in 1992.
The NPP Northern Regional Director of Communication is the latest to join calls for the Trade Minister to distance himself from the divisive comments espoused against northerners.
Mr. Sayibu Yussif Danjumah noted the party successfully conducted its polling station to national levels elections without any disparaging comments about people contesting and where they come from.
“The selection process of our leadership is based on merits. So Alan’s campaign approach ought to be the identification of the fundamental reasons why a critical mass of the people has this suicidal pact with the most incompetent party imaginable” he added.
Mr. Danjumah in exclusive interaction bemoaned to THE CUSTODIAN Northern Regional Correspondent, Mohammed Gadafi, that, the behaviour of Mr. Adorye will lead to the accusations that the NPP is made up of a bunch of elitist crooks who look down on others; or that core members of the NPP harbour extreme ethnocentric agenda; or that the party hierarchy spawns a sense of entitlement to the prevailing political privileges.
He emphasized that, there should be a strong party charter prescribing proper social conduct and imposing sanctions against those who breach this charter.
The Communication Director maintained matters of ethical behavior, interpersonal conduct, and social and media interaction must all be defined within this charter, and those who breach it should be made to discover that it is the party that owns them, and that they do not own the party.
He stressed that given the present cacophony within the party hierarchy, an NPP charter defining the conduct of its members, even if it is aspirational, will go a long way to curb the excesses undermining the party’s appeal to the generality of Ghanaians.
Meanwhile, the Member of Parliament for Yendi Constituency, Mr. Farouk Aliu Mahama has stated Hopeson Adorye’s discriminatory utterance is a mockery of the founding ideals of the NPP.
“His statement is a mockery of our founding ideals, that is, to build a political grouping of national character that lends, tout de suite, the liberty of inclusion at the pinnacle of the party in spite of the circumstances of your birth, creed, religious suasion or origin” he said.
The lawmaker added the party has thrived on these tenets, endured all the political hostilities and persecutions in the pre and post-independence era.
Quash Danquah-Dombo-Busia tradition
Musah Iddrisu Superior, a leading member of the NPP has also called for the complete scraping of the long existence of the Danquah-Dombo-Busia tradition.
According to him, the tradition has outlived its usefulness, arguing it is important to quash the tradition because it divides the rank and file of the New Patriotic Party needlessly and encourages some false sense of entitlement
