{"id":393127,"date":"2017-05-29T16:39:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T16:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/05\/29\/photos-otiko-djaba-bugri-naabu-severely-reprimanded-as-npp-half-night-ends\/"},"modified":"2017-05-29T16:39:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T16:39:24","slug":"photos-otiko-djaba-bugri-naabu-severely-reprimanded-as-npp-half-night-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/05\/29\/photos-otiko-djaba-bugri-naabu-severely-reprimanded-as-npp-half-night-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Otiko Djaba, Bugri Naabu &#8216;severely reprimanded&#8217; as NPP &#8216;half-night&#8217; ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NPP Northern regional chairman Bugri Naabu and Gender, Children and Social Protection minister Otiko Djaba have been &#8216;severely reprimanded&#8217; at an NPP National Council meeting held Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The President&#8217;s two darlings were directed to submit a written apology after they engaged in a public spat and political muscle- flexing.<\/p>\n<p>A public relations nightmare had engulfed the party after a discordant relationship between the president&#8217;s two darlings played \u00a0out last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The NPP Northern Regional minister disrupted a meeting organised by Otiko Djaba which he says was without his knowledge. The two later engaged in name calling complete with defamatory allegations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2616571751371_8027628414643.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:400px; margin-left:2px; margin-right:2px; width:600px\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"4010592841\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Otiko Djaba and Bugri Naabu<\/p>\n<p>The President has reportedly met the two separately and privately over the matter and the National Council meeting was to resolve the matter.<\/p>\n<p>An NPP Council meeting ended with its elders tight-lipped over the decision reached on a public spat between the Gender minister Otiko Djaba and an NPP regional chairman Bugri Naabu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Just wait tomorrow morning&#8217; the ag. General Secretary John Boadu earlier made in a parting comment to the media after 11:30pm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/8065044732402_1255657381015.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:403px; margin-left:2px; margin-right:2px; width:502px\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"625471652\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The press statement which came in Thursday morning stated:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The meeting expressed strong disapproval and regret against the actions and utterances of the minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection and the Northern Regional Chairman&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though the two apologized profusely, the meeting severely reprimanded them and bonded them to be of good behaviour. They were also asked to put their apologies into written statements&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The party&#8217;s first Council meeting for 2017 began after 7pm and spanned more than four hours.<\/p>\n<p>Senior party figures trickled into the Alisa Hotel in Accra fortified with military personnel and the police. A handful of party elders had turned up by 7pm fuelling speculations among journalists, the meeting may be called off.<\/p>\n<p>But soon, movers and shakers in the party descended into the venue, exchanged quick pleasantries and entered the hotel for what turned out to be a &#8216;half night&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, Lands and Natural Resources minister John Peter Amewu, COCOBOD Chair Hackman Owusu Agyeman, NPP National executives and a host of government ministers attended the meeting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/8952530953929_9107020805382.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:444px; margin-left:2px; margin-right:2px; width:553px\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"1110709592\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/9503123438606_7890387928320.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:391px; margin-left:2px; margin-right:2px; width:528px\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"3534687014\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/7823670598160_2063234237591.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:439px; margin-left:2px; margin-right:2px; width:547px\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"3935442055\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The President, Nana Akufo-Addo, flew in from Kumasi in the Ashanti region where he had gone to formally open the Kumasi City Mall.<\/p>\n<p>His arrival kickstarted the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>According to Joy News&#8217; Latif Iddrisu, the meeting was to discuss proposals for amendments to the NPP constitution, determine the party&#8217;s relationship with the government and also discuss the headline impasse between two top party officials &#8211; Otiko Djaba and NPP Northern regional chairman Bugri Naabu.<\/p>\n<p>The latter agenda was the big deal for journalists who had camped there for a parallel &#8216;half night&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Otiko Djaba was seen speaking briefly to the General Secretary before vanishing inside the Alisa Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Latif Iddrisu gathered that the meeting ended with a stern caution to keep discussions and resolutions out of the media pending a formal communication from the party.<\/p>\n<p>But the General Secretary hinted the decisions taken would have far-reaching impact on the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPP Northern regional chairman Bugri Naabu and Gender, Children and Social Protection minister Otiko Djaba have been &#8216;severely reprimanded&#8217; at an NPP National Council meeting held Wednesday night. 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