Ashanti NPP Heal Wounds

By Justice Dzido On Jun 25, 2020

AS PART of efforts to confront the December 7 elections with a strong and united front, the Ashanti Regional branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has commenced a reconciliation process.

Barely 48 hours after the party’s much-talked-about parliamentary elections, held on Saturday, the Ashanti Regional NPP Reconciliation Committee hit the road running to reconcile angry party members.

Former Bantama NPP Chairman, Lawyer Henry Kwabena Kokofu, who is Secretary to the four-member committee, has told to The New Publisher that his group works daily at the Beauty Queen Hotel in Santase.

According to him, the Committee has been mainly tasked to probe and find out where there is tension and fighting after the party’s parliamentary elections in 44 out of the 47 constituencies in the region last Saturday.

Lawyer Kwabena Kokofu, who is also a former Member of Parliament (MP) for Bantama, said the Committee is not targeting any particular constituency, explaining “our scope of work covers all the 44 constituencies”.

He indicated that the Committee members would invite party members who are clearly at loggerheads after the Saturday’s polls and talk to them to help resolve their issues amicably thereby promoting peace.

Lawyer Kwabena Kokofu also said any party member that has issues with the outcome of the Saturday’s internal elections could also appear before the Committee and lodge a complaint for it to be investigated.

The Committee is headed by Robert Yaw Amankwa, an ex-Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP with Osei Prempeh, MD of Goil Company Ltd and Nana Adwoa Dokua, CEO of Beauty Queen Hotel as the other members.

The Committee is expected to complete their tedious work in some few weeks time and report to the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP, Bernard Antwi Boasiako aka ‘Wontumi’ to take the necessary action.

The Ashanti Region is the NPPs strongest hold. The party won a whopping 44 out of the 47 parliamentary seats in the region in 2016. The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) holds the remaining three seats.