The suspended General Secretary of the All
People’s Congress Razak Opoku has disclosed that his party stole the 2016
manifesto of the opposition New Patriotic Party. This was revealed on
3FM’s Sunrise morning show hosted by Winston Amoah on Monday. He was reacting to
obvious rift in the party as two executives declared their support for the
opposition NPP, while the flag bearer is set to endorse the candidature of the
governing NDC’s John Dramani Mahama.
Allegations
Razak Opoku who insists the APC manifesto was stolen from the NPP asked
Winston to challenge Dr. Hassan Ayariga to deny his claims.
“Ask him how
come the party manifesto that all of us decided to launch; in fact I wrote 90%
of the manifesto and he wrote about 10% but on the day of the launch the
manifesto was a different manifesto, it was the manifesto of the NPP ask him
that.
“I can give you a copy of the exact copy of the exact manifesto
that the APC was to launch. The manifesto that we launched on the Aviation
Social Center is the manifesto of the New Patriotic Party. I dare you to ask him
how come he was able to get that. Who stole the manifesto of the NPP for him and
subsequently claim ownership to it?
Asked who leaked the NPP manifesto,
Razak Opoku declined to provide answer only to insist that the host get that
information from Hassan Ayariga.
When contacted for his side of the
story, Dr. Hassan Ayariga was emphatic he would not respond to a sycophant.
“If you put a sycophant in your studio and want me to respond to, I will
not respond”.
Earlier, Razack Opoku had laughed his disappointed
presidential hopeful, Dr. Hasan Ayariga, scorning his suspension by the leader.
“Who said I have been suspended?” he asked “I thank you very much that
you did not say the national disciplinary committee has made recommendations to
national executive committee but rather Hassan Ayariga who thinks that running a
political party is like running a pizza business, whereby somebody can just work
and say I have dismissed you. Political party is not a sole proprietorship.”
Breach of Constitution
Quoting sections of
their constitution, Razak Opoku maintained that all the grievance and
disciplinary procedures have been breached.
“Chapter 4, page 11 of our
constitution clearly spells out what the processes are. Article 14 which
stipulates all the disciplinary and grievance procedures by the National
Executive Committee and in dealing with allegations brought against a member has
been breached.” |
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