Source: newsthemegh.com
Nothing should be done or supported that has the potential to hinder or prevent unity within the rank and file of the party governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in its November 4, 2023 elections, according to the office of the majority leader in parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu.
This comes in response to claims made by flagbearer candidate Kennedy Agyepong that the Majority leader is using “tribal and religious politics” while leading Mahamudu Bawumia’s campaign.
The majority leader’s office responded to the claims by saying that Mr. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu’s “character trait” is “truthfulness, pragmatism, and realism, and these have always guided and guarded his statements, discussions, and conversations.”
The majority leader’s office further characterized the Majority Leader’s speeches as “well-reasoned; not philippic, in other words, not statements that bitterly attack other persons; or petulant, that is, ill-tempered or peevish; or populist.”
It was emphasized that Mr. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu had neither approved of nor colluded with anyone to “hijack the party.”
The National Executive Committee and National Council, along with him, “stood firmly and thwarted attempts by some of the presidential hopefuls to set aside clearly stated, unambiguous provisions of the NPP Constitution,” the office of the Majority leader claims, emphasizing that “if that amounts to “hijacking” or “intimidation” or “collapsing the party,” in Mr. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong’s opinion, it can only be described as unfortunate.”
It said that: “The Vice-President, is not known for bellicosity, belligerence or hot-headedness” neither does he spew “vitriol.”
The office of the Majority leader, described Dr Bawumia as “well focused” while emphasizing that “on his rounds he has never attacked any of the contestants. He speaks to his own track-record in the party, his experience and his vision to reposition the party and the economy.”
It, however, urged Mr Agyepong, who is also Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North if he “has any mustard- seed evidence of “intimidation or coercion”, or “party-collapsing adventures” on the part of Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, or “any tribal or religious politics” on the part of Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu,” to “bring the pieces out for redress in the supreme interest of the party.”