Minority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has expressed disappointment over his national chairman, Paul Afoko’s decision to discuss the cessation of financial support from its Members of Parliament to the party in the media.
He said such moves leaves cracks in the growth of the party, especially as it strives to obtain power in the near future.
The minority caucus in parliament had reportedly in a meeting resolved that monies to the party office should be stopped, as the party failed to defend certain MPs in the primaries.
But Mr Mensah-Bonsu in an interview with an Accra-based Okay FM has condemned the party’s chairman for his decision to share his concerns over the issue in the media.
He claimed there was no basis for Afoko(Party’s chairman) to have opened up core internal matters of the party in the media, especially when he’d taken steps with them already to see how best it would reverse the decision by the MPs.
“What is going on in the NPP? we should be careful. This shouldn’t have come on radio. It is party issue so why do you bring it into the media. That is not the best way to grow our party,”
In a statement issued Tuesday, the party’s chairman said the monthly financial support from its Members of Parliament has ceased since February 2015.
The statement signed by his spokesperson, Nana Yaw Osei undoubtedly points to the NPP’s distress in its financial matters compelling the party’s chairman to express his frustration in the media.
But, the Minority Leader of the largest opposition party reiterated he’s stunned by the behavior of the party’s chairman to discuss the issue in public.
Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu further explaining the issue said, his colleagues were getting worried that notwithstanding their massive support to the party, it allowed ‘people from nowhere’ to contest the MPs, especially seasoned legislators in Ghana’s parliament.
He said in entrenched democracies all over the world, this was unacceptable.
By: Kasapafmonline.com/Ghana
