Believes It Will Divide The NPP
In opposition yet again for the first time in eight years, the NPP now struggles to come to terms with the telling bouts of hefty blows that sent them reeling back into opposition at the tail-end of December 2008.
Party leader Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, quite definitely with one eye on 2012, has had to rely on his rich vein of tolerance, to restrain himself from initiating the blame-game, with regards to certain monies that allegedly found their way into undeserved pockets.
However no matter how he and other leading elephants want to muffle the noisy effusions of the disciples of the BLAME-GAME, insinuations and aspersions fly all over the place, drawing some discomfort among leading lights perceived to have soiled their fingers with double digit percentage-slice of campaign funds.
The pain among the apostles of the blame-game is that, while foot soldiers were busy spraying campaign messages in towns, villages and hamlets, these guilty lads were busy sharing what they perceived to be a windfall. Not even Nana Akufo Addo’s insistence on abandoning the blame-game can appease this group who say, some Party officials and campaign officers have suddenly come into landed property at East Legon and elsewhere. The Party leader however wants the whole gamut of the Party caucus to focus on 2012, stay loyal and vigilant on the back of the elephant, and work harder to canvas for even more votes.
Some two weeks ago, Nana Addo announced to an assembled field of Party supporters at the Asylum Down headquarters, that for the time being he was giving up two offices he used for the 2008 campaign. In the event, Nana let-go the Hackman Owusu Agyeman landed facility, just opposite the Electoral Commission, and yet another at Asylum Down where rent had been due for quite sometime now.
Party leaders and ground troops THE SUN'S SPOTLIGHT TEAM interacted with, were however of the view that if Nana does not allow a microscope dissection of the very issues that drove the Party into opposition, he will be shocked to find out that accusations will come hunting on all fronts. The very concerned say, they simply do not understand just why original cash meant for campaign was never released until after December 7, which had a dated band of 8th October printed in blue ink.
“I swear these officials took it for granted that the massive crowds were an indication that we have won and so set aside several loads of the notesâ€, one such angry foot soldier told THE SUN.
The paper’s rays have begun touching certain plush areas in Accra and elsewhere to fish out the said landed property acquired in the dead of the night hand in hand with keen, and watchful foot soldiers.
At the end of it all, THE SUN would want to establish truth in that disturbing allegation that, when campaign officials pocketed a large chunk by slamming the door, the satellite regional bodies followed suit with the turning of the key, leaving campaign tap funds dry of the cash liquidity that should have eased and cushioned problems.
