Founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, has slammed the Member of Parliament for Abetifi and Minister for Food and Agriculture, Bryan Acheampong, for claiming that the ruling party will hold on to power at all cost.
Mr. Acheampong addressing party supporters at Mpraeso on Saturday, claimed the ruling New Patriotic Party will never hand over power to the opposition NDC in 2025.
“NDC party will collapse. If the NDC dares to use threats, violence and foolishness in the 2024 election, we will let them know we have the men. We will show them that we have the men. We have the men! [He screamed to emphasize]. It will never happen that we, the NPP, will stand on a platform to hand over power to the NDC. It will never happen! We will make sure NPP remains in government at all cost.”
Bryan Achemapong
The comment by the Abetifi MP has been condemned by the Minority and the NDC, with the opposition party calling for the arrest and prosecution of the MP.
In a statement, Dr. Nyaho-Tamakloe averred the comment by Mr. Acheampong, can lead the nation into destruction, beyond the extent the Akufo Addo government has already caused.
“Bryan Acheampong’s indiscipline and violent tendency has reached legendary levels and it is about time the President and the NPP leadership called him to sanity. Failure to do that, will further injure the party and lead it to a total collapse.
“Some of us in the NPP will not sit down unconcerned for such irresponsible behaviors alien to the NPP and inimical to national development, to continue. Development is what our country greatly requires now, and as a cabinet minister, that is what Bryan Acheampong should have addressed on political platforms such as it was offered him last Saturday.”
Dr. Nyaho-Tamakloe
The elderly statesman called Mr. Acheampong to immediately, “withdraw and render an unqualified apology to the good people of Ghana for making such destructive, unlawful, unguided, unnecessary and unintelligent political statement.”
Nana B Supports Bryan Acheampong’s Comments
However, the National Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has shown his unwavering support of the Abetifi MP’s comment, about the current government never handing over power to the NDC.
Ostensibly two issues were contained in his speech, according to Henry Nana Boakye.
First of all, Hon. Bryan Acheampong said, “If the NDC dares to use threats and violence during the 2024 election, we will let them know we have the men.” Nana B commented on this by saying that “certainly, the state has abled uniform men to make sure there is peace and tranquility in the country.”
“This call from Bryan Acheampong is important when the former President John Dramani Mahama is on record to have recklessly stated on various platforms that the NDC was born out of revolution, therefore, no one can unleash violence better than the NDC political party. For that matter, 2024 elections is a do or die affair. Again it’s a good call when the National Chairman of the NDC, Asiedu Nketiah has also stated that ‘even if 2024 election will cost the NDC to sacrifice blood, they will do it”.
“Also the NDC’s Youth Organiser in the Suame constituency was recently apprehended for saying that ‘we shall kill for political power’ and when he was granted bail, the NDC’s National leadership dispatched a delegation to Ashanti Region just to celebrate him. In fact the NDC subsequently even issued a statement, justifying and endorsing such a criminal act.”
Nana B
To reiterate the claims made by Hon Acheampong during the Easter Saturday walk, he said “due to the challenges faced in the economy in recent times, the opposition NDC thinks they will win the elections but as you can see the Cedi is stabilising and fuel prices have drastically been reduced so the government will fix the challenges. It will never happen that we the NPP will hand over power to the NDC. We will make sure NPP remains in government at all cost; the economy will fully recover by June or July”.
According to Nana B, clearly Bryan Acheampong premised his comments on the turn around of the economy, fallen prices of fuel and the stabilisation of the Cedi.
“There is absolutely nothing untorwards about his comments. The NPP fully endorses and supports his comments.”
Nana B
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