The Director of Monitoring and Evaluation at the
Presidency, Dr. Tony Aidoo is advocating that the opposition New
Patriotic Party (NPP) is banned from Ghana’s body
politics.
He indicated that the conduct of the NPP for the past four
years, if not checked could plunge the country into a civil
war.
Dr. Tony Aidoo was speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen
programme Monday.
The NPP has raised concerns about discrepancies in results of
Friday polls especially in their strongholds.
The party which has refused to concede defeat since the
declaration of the election results insists the polls were rigged
to favour the incumbent President John Mahama and thus has enough
evidence to back its claims.
But Tony Aidoo maintained that the NPP’s claims are
“frivolous” which should be treated with the contempt it
deserves.
According to him, the NPP who are regarded as being
intellectuals should know better that Ghanaians will not buy into
their tricks.
“For all their [NPP] intellectual bigotry they don’t know the
law. They don’t have any democratic credentials; they are
terrorists” he said.
The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) kingpin said
“the NPP are bad losers; their repetitive conduct of bringing the
electoral process into disrupt could plunge the country into a
civil war”.
The Policy Analyst at the presidency noted that any action
taken by the NPP will be an exercise in futility, explaining that
the verdict of Ghanaians is more paramount than a political
party.
Tony Aidoo said the NPP must respect the choice of the
electorate because they are not the a repository of
knowledge.
They [NPP] are not our rulers by divine providence, it is the
people of Ghana who choose a leader. If they are in power
everything is ok but if they are not in power everything is
wrong”.
He added that government is not scared by the “empty threats”
of the NPP but will ensure the will of the people is
preserved.
