The national and regional executives of the NPP have dissociated themselves from the executive members of the Ho Central Constituency who were recently sworn in and took office after a protracted court battle.

They said the new executives were not recognized by the party, either at the regional or national level, in consonance with party discipline. To this end, a caretaker executive is to be appointed to manage the affairs of the constituency in the run up to the December elections while maintaining the court sanctioned executive, in full compliance with the high court?s order.

Consequently, in line with party discipline, the elected officers have been stripped of their power by virtue of their suspension from the party for disregarding the internal mechanisms for conflict resolution and resorting to washing the ?dirty linen? of the party in public. This is because the elected executive had flouted the regulations of the party in going to court over issues that the party believed would have been solved within the structures of the party, without recourse to the law courts.

These decisions were made known by the Volta regional chairman of the NPP, Mr. Ken Wuud Nuworsu, at a press briefing in Ho last weekend. According to him, the problems that had bedevilled the constituency over a year are far from resolved, adding that the party was bent on strictly applying the constitution of the party under which the sworn-in executive had been suspended, thereby annulling their election as constituency executives.