NPP Chairmen blames NDC for negative press on Edumadze

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) constituency chairmen in the Central Region on Wednesday expressed their solidarity with the Regional Minister, Isaac Edumadze and attributed the current negative media reports about him to the work of his "detractors and foes, the NDC".

They said the media has been "extraordinarily hard on the Minister and seem to be unceasingly blowing issues concerning him out of proportion just to let him appear as a misfit.

"We feel a lot have come about through the evil machinations of his detractors and foes alike, who only want to see his downfall by sniffing round him for the least misdemeanour," the Chairmen stated these in a release read by their spokesman, Nana Gyamerah, Chairman of Assin South Constituency, after an emergency meeting at Cape Coast.

The release, signed by 13 of the 17 constituency chairmen said among other things that they: "wish to unequivocally state that he is the right person for the job in the Region in spite of a few flaws that have befallen him. To err, we all know, is human", they declared.

They expressed misgivings about the continued references in the media, to the incident in which Mr Edumadze was said to have impounded a taxi from Suhum to Cape Coast. "The obnoxious tradition of changing Regional Ministers perennially in the Region, must be a thing of the past in this new dispensation."

On the recent impasse involving the Minister and the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam constituency NPP Chairman, Nana Gyamerah said the issue was amicably settled last Thursday, adding, "to the utter dismay of their adversaries". The Journalists asked the chairmen to advice the Minister to be very circumspect in his dealings, especially with the media.