Agyenim Boateng questions NPP's credibility

A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) communications team, James Agyenim Boateng, has doubts over the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) widely held view that it is a law abiding entity.

According to the deputy information minister, the party’s decision to boycott the inauguration ceremony of President Mahama slated for January 7, is a trait to the party.

Speaking in an interview with Citi FM in Accra, he said: “Whatever the NPP decides to do, I think it is very much their choosing. But again, it underscores a certain fact that the NPP’s democratic credence is questionable.

You cannot have a political party that loses elections and behave the way and manner it has behaved in the last several weeks.”

He, however, opined that the NPP’s action after the elections has been awkward, adding that “it is quite typical and quite characteristic of the NPP. We all do know the steps they took in 2008. One would have thought that they would have put those matters behind them and perhaps sought to re- brand [the party] and learn lessons.”

The minister was emphatic that the ceremony will take place with or without the presence of the members of the NPP.

Mr. Agyenim Boateng also mentioned that the arrangements for the inaugural ceremony are underway to ensure a very clean wrap up of the administration of the President.

“This is also aimed at having a smooth transfer of the governing machinery and administration to the incumbent government of President John Dramani Mahama,” he added.

President John Mahama will be sworn in as President of the Republic of Ghana on Monday January 7, 2013 but the NPP on Thursday 3, 2013 announced that its members will not be present at the swearing in ceremony of the President because it is in breach of their decision to petition the Supreme Court over the results of the 2012 elections.