The Free Press carries that in a move, which has shocked the national executive of the NDC and created consternation among the rank and file of the party, the regional chairman at its stronghold, the Volta Region has ejected the party from his premises.

Claiming non-payment of rent as the reason, the chairman, John Koku Nunyure has ordered the party to remove all its vehicles and paraphernalia including posters and flags from his residence which, until the incident, was being used as party offices in the regional capital, Ho.

Incidentally, the chairman’s wife, Mrs Bertha Nunyure is also the party’s deputy women’s organiser for the region and a founding member.

Available information indicated that the NDC owed the couple rent arrears totalling over ?4 million and has not maintained proper sanitation in and around the building. The regional chairman and the wife claim also that they had never benefited from the NDC rule and that they spent their resources on the party.

When contacted, the regional secretary of the party, Yao Kumah Adany pointed out that this situation was not only adversely affecting the NDC but also their re-organisation at efforts to recapture political power come 2004.

He denied that the party ever owed the Nunyeres in rent arrears and said they had paid ?5.4 million to them since 1992 to June 30, 2001.