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Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketiah – Secretary General, NDC
Just 24 hours after ousting its former central regional president, Mr. Bernard Allotey Jacobs, for “misconduct and anti-party conduct,” the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has suspended a second party member in the Binduri constituency, Mr. Stephen Atubiga, for some derogatory comments he made about Professor Joshua Alabi and the party.
The party, apparently on a war footing against internal indiscipline, said Atubiga had not apologized to Professor Alabi, although he had agreed in a meeting to issue an unreserved apology.
The party had announced on February 8 this year the suspension of a former Deputy Secretary General of the party, Mr. Samuel Koku Anyidoho, on the basis of two petitions submitted by two registered members of the NDC.
Drastic measures
Speaking of the problems in an interview with the Daily Graphic, NDC Secretary General Johnson Asiedu Nketiah said the party was determined to crack down on internal indiscipline.
He explained that although the activities of political parties were about numbers, it was better to have a few good numbers whose activities positively impacted the party than to have fifth columnists who harm the good of the party.
Due to the process
In all of this, Mr. Nketiah said that the party was conscious of using due process to give all such people an opportunity to clarify before the party’s disciplinary committee.
He cited, for example, that although Mr. Allotey Jacobs had announced his resignation from the party, he did not prevent the party from going through the process of facing the disciplinary committee.
Nketiah said that facing the disciplinary committee does not necessarily mean that the final punishment is expulsion.
He explained that, among other sanctions, there were options to reprimand, fine, impose a ban from holding public office, and expel guilty party members based on the severity of the offense and the findings, as well as the recommendations of the disciplinary committee.
Last Tuesday, the NDC announced the expulsion of Mr. Allotey Jacobs from the party following the recommendations of the party’s Functional Executive Committee (FEC) for “misconduct and anti-party conduct”, which it said was pursuant to Article 48 (1) . and 8 (b) of the party constitution.
Atubiga
It noted that Mr. Atubiga had agreed to officially write on his Facebook wall retracting the previous writings and officially write to Professor Alabi personally apologizing to him and refraining from such defamatory comments in the future.
“However, recent social media posts attributed to him on March 8, March 12, and March 14, among others, denigrating the party and the party’s people indicate that he is not only breaking his own promise and, therefore, therefore, it is not reliable, but it is biting even more the image of the party contrary to article 47 (1) (a, b) of the party’s constitution, ”he said.
He urged him to cooperate with the disciplinary committee “for a prompt determination of his case.”
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