Still grappling with the reality of their defeat at the hands of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the last December/January polls, the dog fight among members of the New Patriotic (Party (NPP) continues unabated. This time it is Atta Akyea who has dealt a lethal blow to his party colleagues calling them thieves as he continues to fight Nana Akufo-Addo’s lost battle.

Hon Atta Akyea who replaces the defeated NPP flagbearer as Member of Parliament (MP) for Aboakwa South, when the former MP decided to ‘go high’ towards the presidency, has accused some members of his party of stealing monies that were handed them for serious political activities during the 2008 electioneering campaign. He blamed the shameful defeat of Nana Akufo-Addo at the polls on the ‘NPP thieves’.

Atta Akyea, who could not hide his disappointment in his unnamed ‘thieving’ party colleagues, took a swipe at them saying their deeds helped the NDC to come to power. The Aboakwa South MP revealed that huge sums of monies were injected into the Akufo-Addo campaign during the run-off of the 2008 elections but those monies evaporated into thin air, something he could not forgive his thieving party colleagues for.

He was speaking at a handing over ceremony of executives of TESCON, the NPP tertiary students’ group in Accra.

Hon Atta Akyea noted that the NPP both at the corridors of power at the time, as well as at the grassroots levels, had an array of “thievery people” who pocketed huge sums of cash injected into the campaign of Nana Akufo-Addo during the second round of the elections.

Atta Akyea who together with other party colleagues are alleged to have conducted themselves distastefully during the elections in trying to help the NPP cling on to power by hook or crook, claimed that some members of the NPP including top guns of the party, have traded their loyalty for material things, especially money, which was a major minus for the Akufo-Addo campaign. In his estimation, the NPP could have won the elections if members maintained their loyalty.

“Money matters to a lot of our people more than the course for which we are fighting. And even at the corridors of power and at the constituency levels, the party has an array of thievery people,” he noted. The Aboakwa South MP also pointed out in accepting the fact that the NPP is a house divided against itself, sighting a biblical quotation which states that ‘a house divided against itself cannot stand’.

He noted that majority of the members of the NPP were not serious, given the level of division in the party that led to its tragic crash in the elections. “I don’t see how any serious people can win power without unity. He added, “We even forgot about the common enemy” saying that the party rather focused more attention on infightings rather than unleashing all its arsenals on the NDC, the common enemy.

Hon Atta Akyea also reiterated that internal democracy has eluded the elephant party. “When you cannot practice internal democracy, you cannot achieve national democracy,” he pointed out.

Outlining the possible ways he thought the NPP could bounce back to power in the next four or so years, Atta Akyea stated that it was time the party became daring and resilient. He however lamented the future was blurred because there is little commitment on the part of majority of members. “Victory is never cheap,” he said, adding that the party must stand up and address the issues that were tearing it apart if it is to taste political power