{"id":238463,"date":"2012-12-10T19:08:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T19:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2012\/12\/i-wish-npp-were-banned-from-ghanaian-politics-tony-aidoo\/"},"modified":"2012-12-10T19:08:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T19:08:25","slug":"i-wish-npp-were-banned-from-ghanaian-politics-tony-aidoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/12\/10\/i-wish-npp-were-banned-from-ghanaian-politics-tony-aidoo\/","title":{"rendered":"I wish NPP were banned from Ghanaian politics &#8211; Tony Aidoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"story_photo\">\n<div class=\"image-frame\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/3439149442183_1682.jpg\" title=\"I wish NPP were banned from Ghanaian politics - Tony Aidoo\" alt=\"I wish NPP were banned from Ghanaian politics - Tony Aidoo\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"caption\"><span class=\"caption-text\">Tony Aidoo<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_text_1\"> 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\u2019s body politics.<\/p>\n<p>He indicated that the conduct of the NPP for the past four years, if not checked could plunge the country into a civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tony Aidoo was speaking on Asempa FM\u2019s <em>Ekosii Sen<\/em> programme Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The NPP has raised concerns about discrepancies in results of Friday polls especially in their strongholds.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>But Tony Aidoo maintained that the NPP\u2019s claims are \u201cfrivolous\u201d which should be treated with the contempt it deserves.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the NPP who are regarded as being intellectuals should know better that Ghanaians will not buy into their tricks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor all their [NPP] intellectual bigotry they don\u2019t know the law. They don\u2019t have any democratic credentials; they are terrorists\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) kingpin said \u201cthe NPP are bad losers; their repetitive conduct of bringing the electoral process into disrupt could plunge the country into a civil war\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Aidoo said the NPP must respect the choice of the electorate because they are not the a repository of knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>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\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added that government is not scared by the \u201cempty threats\u201d of the NPP but will ensure the will of the people is preserved. <\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"story_text_1\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Tony Aidoo 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\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I wish NPP were banned from Ghanaian politics - Tony Aidoo - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/12\/10\/i-wish-npp-were-banned-from-ghanaian-politics-tony-aidoo\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"I wish NPP were banned from Ghanaian politics - Tony Aidoo - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Tony Aidoo 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\u2019s 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.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/3439149442183_1682.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2012\\\/12\\\/10\\\/i-wish-npp-were-banned-from-ghanaian-politics-tony-aidoo\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2012\\\/12\\\/10\\\/i-wish-npp-were-banned-from-ghanaian-politics-tony-aidoo\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"I wish NPP were banned from Ghanaian politics &#8211; 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