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DPP expels
some of its executives
Sunyani (B/A), Jan. 13, GNA - Mr. Thomas
Nuako Ward-Brew, Chairman of Democratic People’s Party (DPP),
on Monday announced that the national organiser and three
regional executives of the DPP in Brong Ahafo Region have
been dismissed from the party.
He alleged that the dismissed executives collected money
from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and misled the general
public that the DPP had declared its support for the NPP in
last year’s Presidential Runoff.
They were Mr. Kojo Rockson, national organizer, Nana Amanfo
Antwi, regional chairman, Reverend Philip Owusu Acheaw,
regional treasurer and Mr. Charles Obeng-Yeboah, regional
secretary.
Mr. Ward-Brew told the Ghana News Agency in Sunyani that
“such executives who followed the party because of their
stomachs and not for the interest and progress of the party
can no longer be entertained and do not even deserve to be
members”.
He said that immediately after the first round of 2008
Election, the NPP and the NDC, the country’s leading
political parties, consulted the DPP for its support in the
runoff.
Mr. Ward-Brew said after initial discussions between DPP’s
National Executive Committee (NEC) and the NPP and NDC, the
DPP decided to remain neutral.
He said “A day after the NEC meeting, which was held in
Accra, Rockson and the three regional executives held a
press conference in Sunyani declaring the DPP’s support for
the NPP, claiming the NEC was in support of their action”.
When GNA contacted Mr. Rockson for his side of the story, he
denied taking part in the action of the regional executives
but Nana Antwi told GNA that he had defected to the NPP
before holding the press conference.
Both Mr. Obeng-Yeboah and Rev. Acheaw declined to talk to
GNA on the allegations.
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