How can you unite the party with such behavior? – Hopeson Adorye slams Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu

Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, majority leader and member of parliament for the Suame seat, has come under fire from Hopeson Adorye, a member of the Alan Kyerematen flagbearership campaign.

He claims that by openly endorsing Vice President Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia’s quest for the party’s leadership, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has violated NPP norms.

Adorye contends that the party’s constitution places limitations on current party officials, including Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, with regard to publicly endorsing candidates for office.

On September 4, 2023, he explained that the Suame MP was present at a meeting when such regulations were discussed and decided upon. He said this in an interview with Okay FM.

He noted that the party had policies in place prohibiting party officials from publicly endorsing any candidates. Adorye claims that the Majority Leader’s activities have defied these regulations.

“There is one thing that I want to draw his attention to, in the constitution of the NPP parliamentary group, which appears to be article 14 or so, and the leader of the parliamentary group, in this case, the Majority leader, is a member of the national executive committee, in fact, he is a member of the steering committee and a member of the National Council.

“You sat down and brought guidelines that party executives should not openly declare support for any of the candidates. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu was present at the meeting, and they agreed that if you’re an active executive, either constituency, region, or national don’t openly declare support for any of the candidates.

“But that doesn’t mean you don’t have anyone you support, you have someone you support, but you can’t come and sit on radio this morning and say things, or have those laws been repealed?”

He voiced worry that the MP’s actions could make it more difficult for him to promote party cohesion. He thinks that older party members’ acts convey the wrong message, especially to younger party members who may be punished for similar transgressions.

“If you put up such behavior, how can you unite the party? You see, God has given us the keys, so it is up to us to hand it over to the NDC.

“But based on what we are doing, it means that we are in the process of handing over the keys to the NDC because if the young ones do the same thing, they are punished, but when an elderly person does it, he is protected.

“Is that how we should run the party? I don’t think it is right…because if it is then they should tell us that those guidelines that they brought have been abolished.”

His remarks come after Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu predicted that Dr. Bawumia will be elected as the party’s flagbearer in an interview on Okay FM.