NPP's leadership change vindicates Mahama - Twum Boafo

“I have acquired a new respect for NPP delegates; they have proven that they were not in favour of how the then executives conducted their activities, especially the decision to challenge the 2012 general elections at the Supreme Court; the lies and so on…,” says the Chief Executive of the Ghana Free Zones Board (GFZB), Kojo Twum Boafo.

He was analyzing the outcome of the just ended National Delegates Conference of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) held in Tamale on Saturday 12th April, 2014 which saw virtually all the old executives of the NPP being voted out.

Twum Boafo said on ‘Kokrokoo’ that the defeat of the old executives is an indication that President Mahama’s victory in the 2012 election has been vindicated.

“This election (of new executives) is the strongest vindication of President Mahama’s victory in 2012. The way they voted out the old executives indicate that they did not do their work well especially during the 2012 elections and that they wasted their time taking it to court…If the old executives did what was expected of them in the 2012 election, why have they been voted out…?

"It is an indication that delegates were not in favour of how they (executives) took certain decisions, including contesting the results of the 2012 elections…I have never seen an incumbent party chairman who will poll such a percentage of votes out of the over 5000 delegates that voted,” he stated.

One other observation Twum Boafo made at the Tamale conference was that “immediately Nana Akufo-Addo entered the stadium, they started playing his campaign song. Do you think that is fair to the rest of the candidates who have made their mind to contest Nana Addo? And you call yourself people who want to deepen democracy.”