Akufo-Addo will retire some NPP executives if… - Akyena Brentuo

A member of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Benjamin Akyena Brentuo says the political career of some national executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will come to an abrupt end if Nana Akufo-Addo decides not to lead the party in 2016.

He said some of the current executives clamouring for the party’s twice-defeated presidential candidate to run for a third time are seeking to retain their positions in the party.

Akyena Brentuo was commenting on the NPP’s rejection of the top-to-bottom approach of electing national executives proposed by the party’s steering committee.

After a crunch meeting at the party’s headquarters Thursday, the National Executive Committee (NEC) rejected the proposal of electing a flagbearer before electing national, regional, constituency and grassroots executives, which generated controversy amongst the party’s rank and file.

The party has set March 1, 2014 for its delegates congress to elect national officers.

But on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Friday, Akyena Brentuo said the rejection of the top-to-bottom approach might end the political careers of the crusaders of the proposal.

According to him, some national executives after NPP’s defeat in the 2012 elections have become very unpopular hence an early congress could have helped them retain their positions.

The NDC man scoffed at the posture of some of the national executives whom he says are clinging onto straw to keep their jobs.

He said they could be equated to some of the Jews who still think the Messiah has not yet come even though the Messiah, Jesus Christ, has come and gone over two thousand years ago.

He maintains that some current executives are lobbying for Akufo-Addo to be retained as leader because he [Nana] holds the key to their political future.

Akyena Brentuo predicted that they [national executives] could go into political oblivion if Nana Akufo-Addo decides not to contest the flagbearership.