Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party Anthony Namoo has dismissed calls for his resignation following the poor performance of the party in the parliamentary election across the region.
The governing party lost three seats it currently occupies in the region and managed to annex only one which is being held by the National Democratic Congress.
The performance of the party in the region has triggered calls for the regional chairman to relinquish his position for what some members of the party say is an exhibition of ‘incompetence and lack of direction’.
“Unfortunately, the region was headed for a record worst performance. The region was to lose all its 3 seats and decrease its share of the Presidential votes to about 32%. The region was to suffer from leadership paralysis. A leadership that provided no direction to achieving any of its own set targets,” a group called Patriotic Movement for Growth said in a statement.
But speaking on Dreamz Fm’s news analysis program dubbed The State of Our Nation, Lawyer Anthony Namoo rejected the calls for his exit and stated forcefully that he would not give in to the demand of the group.
According to him, the action of the group is born out of malcontent and a complete betrayal of the party.
He explained that the party led by the regional executives worked hard to achieve a target of winning seven (7) seats, contrary to claims by the group that the regional executive body was negligent in the heat of the campaigns.
“This is the time for us to examine what went wrong. It is when that examination has been done and it found out that the regional chairman and his executives did ABCD that was wrong. In that case, a blame can come but not haven’t done that not haven’t contributed anything to the party, only for them to mushroom and just sprout just recently to come be blaming people. This group are malcontent,” he said.
The private legal practitioner asserted that the unfortunate performance of the party relative to losing seats is widespread and not limited to the upper east region, citing similar situation in the Central and other regions.
“Though the target we set for ourselves we couldn’t achieve it, that does not mean we didn’t work hard. I had to collapse my office and virtually did not go to court. I had to make sure that we led the campaign and we did the best that we can. You may have the best footballers in the world but sometimes Barcelona for instance loses matches,” he added.
