The Ashanti Regional Executive of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has warned that it would never allow Ashanti to become the base and safe haven for those bent on creating confusion within the party.
A press statement signed by Mr Emmanuel Nti-Fordjour, Regional Chairman, said: "We want to serve notice that under no circumstance would this region be made the operational base of people whose political agenda is to foment trouble and divide the NDC's front."
It denounced what it said was the persistent and orchestrated campaign of lies and mudslinging waged by a shadowy group calling itself "The NDC Action Forum" against some leading members of the party
This group claimed to be based in the Ashanti region and has Mr A. K. Mensah as its President and Mr Asamoah Atuahene as the other member.
The statement repeated that both Mr Atuahene and Mr Mensah have been suspended from the NDC for acts of indiscipline and could, therefore, not hold themselves as members of the party.
It said: "We are amazed that some leading members of the party for reasons difficult to rationalise continue to entertain and encourage the two to perpetrate their acts of political mischief."
The statement asked all genuine NDC supporters to isolate the group and to have nothing doing with it. It stated that what the party needed now was internal peace, harmony and a more united front saying: "This is necessary to enable us to stay focussed."
It said acts likely to spark off unnecessary suspicion and wrangling should, therefore, be avoided, if the NDC was to achieve the goal of wresting political power from the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2004.
The Action Forum in a recent press statement raised question marks on the integrity of Dr Obed Asamoah, a leading member of the NDC, demanding among other things that he be made to account for all monies that went to him as the National Treasurer before he could be allowed to contest for the party's National Chairmanship position.
