The “Kyebi Mafias” refusal not to accept last Friday’s internationally recognized election results is breaking up the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) with the Ashanti bloc covertly asking for a boycott of the legal action against the Electoral Commission (EC) for rigging the polls for President John Dramani Mahama.
They argue that Nana Akufo-Addo’s posturing which has led to violent attacks on innocent persons including journalists at Kwame Nkrumah Circle, Makola, Madina and other places is embarrassing the NPP and might affect its fortunes at the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections.
The Ashanti bloc, which is pushing President John Kufuor’s protégé , John Alan Kyeremanteng and has started floating his posters in Accra, Kumasi and other parts of the country is holding the view that with the NDC already having a candidate in the person of John Mahama, the rebuilding and rebranding of the NPP must start now.
Minority Leader and MP for Suame Kyei Mensah-Bonsu and ex-Presidential Press Secretary Kwabena Agyei Agyapong are said to be relentlessly pushing the Alan 2016 presidential campaign in earnest.
Sammy Awuku, Hopeson Adorye and General Secretary Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie have also been mentioned to be secretly campaigning for the Alan 2016 ticket.
The Alan Kyeremanteng poster copies of which are in the custody of The Herald has the inscription: 2016 Alan has the blue, white and red colours of the NPP with the elephant symbol embossed on it.
The latest is different from an earlier one sported in Kumasi near the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KUNST), few days to the presidential elections.
Already majority of supporters of the NPP living in party stronghold, Kumasi are said to be divided over whether party leadership should go to court over alleged electoral fraud.
The division has been carried to all National Executive meetings held at Alisa Hotel and other places where a variety of options, including seeking legal redress in court were discussed.
At another meeting held yesterday, the party could not affirm its position to go to court and battle the EC for declaring an alleged false result, it rather spent a greater time issuing apology letter to journalists another identifiable group which has been violently attacked by NPP hooligans.
