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A group, calling itself \u2018NPP YOUTH FOR VICTORY 2024\u2019,\u00a0 is urging the National Executive Council (NEC) of the party to investigate the suspension of two members of the Northern Regional Communication Team.<\/p>\n
The action was taken against the two, Alhaji Ibrahim Kaleem and Dawda Jentuma, for advancing the campaign of Minister of Trade, Alan Kyerematen, who is a flagbearer hopeful, on Radio Tamale; a community-based radio station, in disregard of the party\u2019s directive.<\/p>\n
The comments of the communicators according to the party have the tendency to disrupt President Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s governance and the peace within the party, hence the suspension which took effect last Thursday, January 6, 2022.<\/p>\n
Addressing the press in Accra on Monday, the NPP group described the action as unhealthy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Regional Chairman himself has supported the bid of the Vice President in an audio, yet, he is sacking communicators from the party for attending events to talk about Alan Kyerematen. So just because of a studio audience, you have sacked somebody? Because they are behind such shameful dismissals, our national secretariat has been loudly quiet about the issues. We will leave this to the able hands of the National Executives to ensure that such issues are quickly resolved in order not to bring sharp division to the party\u201d, the National President of the group, Jerry John Campbell, said.<\/p>\n
In a statement signed by the Director of Communications for the Northern Region, Mohammed Sheriff Ibrahim, and directed to Ibrahim Kaleem, it said Mr. Kaleem\u2019s participation in the radio program is in clear \u201cviolation of the directive issued by the Northern Regional Chairman of the NPP for party people to cease, among others all media engagements purporting to campaign for flagbearer hopefuls\u201d.<\/p>\n
In addition, the regional communication team says that jingles played, words used, among others on the said program bring the name of the party and government functionaries into disrepute<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cAny person who deals with Alhaji Ibrahim Kaleem as a member of the Northern Regional Communications Team does so at their own risk\u201d, the statement cautioned.<\/p>\n The second suspended person, Dawda Jentuma, an NPP Electoral Area Coordinator also reacted to the suspension on Citi Eyewitness News saying; \u201cBefore you suspend a member from a party, there should be a proper disciplinary procedure, which must be communicated to the member. So, the letter they wrote is an incompetent one because even the name on it is not my official name\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I am the coordinator and my electoral area is mentioned, so I am treating it with some respect, but we will not sit down for people to destroy the party.\u201d<\/p>\n He added that if the situation is not handled properly, it will have consequences on the political fortunes of the NPP in the next general election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A group, calling itself \u2018NPP YOUTH FOR VICTORY 2024\u2019,\u00a0 is urging the National Executive Council (NEC) of the party to investigate the suspension of two members of the Northern Regional Communication Team. The action was taken against the two, Alhaji Ibrahim Kaleem and Dawda Jentuma, for advancing the campaign of Minister of Trade, Alan Kyerematen, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743241","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=743241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}