Confusion rocked the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) meeting in Koforidua on Thursday, which was held at the instance of the Professor Kwesi Bocthway led-Committee investigating the party’s defeat in the December 2016 election.
A brawl ensued after the irate party youth protested the decision to allow the Regional Executives to sit in the meeting, claiming the latter had let them down after the executives failed to secure 50% of the valid vote cast which was the NDC’s target in the Eastern Region.
The wanted the regional executives out of the meeting so they could vent their frustration.
While the melee was on, the youth blocked the Committee Members from exiting the Eredec Hotel which was the venue for the meeting.
The NDC set up a 13-member committee to investigate the cause of the party’s historic defeat in last year’s general polls.
The Committee which is chaired by Dr Kwesi Botchwey, a former Minister of Finance and Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), is to engage NDC members in all the 10 regions to ascertain the cause of the party’s defeat.
Kasapa FM’s Eastern Regional Correspondent, Kojo Ansah reported that the incensed NDC youth accused their Regional executives of misappropriating funds meant to run the 2016 elections.
They demanded that the regional executives be made to account for every penny given them ahead of the election after supervising a shambolic performance.
It took the timely intervention of the police after a distress call to restore normalcy and also release the captured NDC bigwigs.
