GUTA Executives Divided After Mahama Meeting

Business News for Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Source: Michael Ansah, Contributor

2020-09-16

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There is much confusion within the Ghana Merchants Union Association (GUTA) about the political affiliations of its leaders.

The confusion is reportedly being created by some of the executives who have openly shown their affinity with the opposition Democratic National Congress (NDC).

The information collected indicates that the former president and standard-bearer of the NDC opposition, John Dramani Mahama, has written to the GUTA leadership of his intention to meet with the executives to explain the content of his party’s manifesto.

Some of the GUTA executives who allegedly ran away to meet John Mahama at his campaign office in Accra.

Said group of GUTA executives who ignored the protocols governing GUTA operations and the approval of the president, Dr. Joseph Obeng, held a ‘secret’ meeting with John Mahama and his campaign team against the collective decision of the entire leadership.

The meeting they had with John Mahama, according to sources within the GUTA, does not reflect the interest of the entire Association and that everything that was discussed in that meeting with John Mahama was done for their own parish interest.

Interesting revelations emerging from the latest development indicate that the group that had the secret meeting with John Mahama was the reason for the split between GUTA National and GUTA-Accra.

According to the information, they were the reason for the sudden dissolution of the executive of the Greater Accra regional branch of the association which led to GUTA-Greater Accra finally disengaging from the mother Union to form the ‘Ghana Merchants Advocacy Group ( TAGG) ‘.

This group of executives who are supposed to be in the good books of John Mahama have virtually turned the Association into a political arena, where they considered some of the members, including President Dr. Joseph Obeng, to belong to the New Patriotic Party (PNP). , so he decided to meet NDC flag bearer John Mahama without involving others. Meanwhile, some disgruntled members of the Association who saw the movement of the few ‘NDC gangs’ as a betrayal, said that John Mahama should not have given the group an audience.

“We have leaders, we have our president and we think that in matters like this, our president should be part of that meeting. In any case, it was John Mahama who approached us and involved us in his Manifesto, because he wrote to us seeking an audience ”, indicated an executive member.

However, it is unclear in what capacity these people met with John Mahama and what informed John Mahama’s decision to accept them, involve them and present his 2020 Manifesto to them.