{"id":1200982,"date":"2022-09-09T06:10:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T06:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/09\/you-are-being-lawless-for-openly-declaring-support-for-eugene-arhin-prof-gyampo-tells-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2022-09-09T06:10:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T06:10:57","slug":"you-are-being-lawless-for-openly-declaring-support-for-eugene-arhin-prof-gyampo-tells-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/09\/you-are-being-lawless-for-openly-declaring-support-for-eugene-arhin-prof-gyampo-tells-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou are being lawless\u201d for openly declaring support for Eugene Arhin \u2013 Prof. Gyampo tells Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/65721283.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Political Scientist, Professor Ransford Gyampo has accused President Akuffo\u2013Addo of breaching the New Patriotic Party\u2019s Code of Conduct by openly declaring support for his Director of Communication, Eugene Arhin.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Arhin had already announced his decision to contest the Awutu Senya West parliamentary primaries in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, September 2, President Akufo-Addo at a sod-cutting ceremony for the official commencement of construction of the Bawjiase-Kasoa road, and the commissioning of the APPEB Cylinder Manufacturing Co. Ltd openly declared his support for Mr. Arhin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is public knowledge that he [Eugene Arhin] has intentions of contesting on the ticket of the NPP in 2024. If he is successful in the NPP Parliamentary primaries, Nananom I am confident that he will do an excellent job as MP for you and I appeal to all of you to support him if and when that time comes,\u201d Akufo-Addo said.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Gyampo in a Facebook post on September 3 said the act by the President is an \u201cunnecessary attempt at giving unfair advantage\u201d to Eugene Arhin and makes him a \u201clawless\u201d President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRespectfully, Mr President, I cannot mince words. I think you are being lawless, I am sorry to put it bluntly. You were part of your Party\u2019s National Executive Committee Meeting that approved the Party\u2019s Code of Conduct.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FProfRansfordGgyampo%2Fposts%2F610869290636801&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"787\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You are giving unfair advantage to Eugene Arhin, knowing very well that Parliamentary Primaries for the area hasn\u2019t been held,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n<p>The Political Scientist, therefore, wants the party\u2019s General Secretary, Justin Frimpong Kodua to summon the President before the NPP\u2019s Complaint\u2019s Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect Justine Frempong Kodua, the General Secretary of the Party to muster the testicular fortitude as a man who believes in fairness to summon you before your Party\u2019s Complaint Committee. He did this to Hopeson Adorye and Assifua. No one is above the law and the application of the law must not be selective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver to you, Justin. We knew John Boadu could not do this and that\u2019s why we all worked behind the scenes towards your election,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Gyampo further urged Eugene Arhin to \u201copenly and publicly come out to politely reject the campaign that was made for him by the President.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the party\u2019s National Steering Committee\u00a0met all presidential hopefuls to court their support for compliance with the Party\u2019s Code of Conduct.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>The Committee also summoned the organisers of the pro-Alan Kyerematen health walk\u00a0held on Saturday, August 13 despite attempts by the National Executives to get the organisers to call it off.<\/p>\n<p>The health walk, which was massively attended by thousands of NPP faithful in the Ashanti Region, had the supporters displaying placards that highlighted their support for the Trade Minister as the next flagbearer to lead the party in the 2024 general elections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Scientist, Professor Ransford Gyampo has accused President Akuffo\u2013Addo of breaching the New Patriotic Party\u2019s Code of Conduct by openly declaring support for his Director of Communication, Eugene Arhin. Mr. Arhin had already announced his decision to contest the Awutu Senya West parliamentary primaries in 2024. On Friday, September 2, President Akufo-Addo at a sod-cutting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}