There seems to be a series of comments by sections of the NPP in the Bono Region who have expressed disappointment in the attack by their Regional chairman on the President of the Bono Regional House of Chiefs and the Overlord of Dormaa Traditional Council.
On Friday, January 14, 2022 the NPP Bono Regional chairman held a press conference to respond to alleged comments by the Dormaahene. The press conference, which was originally scheduled to take place at Regent Resort Hotel in Abesim had to be moved to Hempong Hotel at Berlin Top in Fiapre after a group invaded the venue to stop Abronye from carrying out with the press conference as planned.
A member of the New Patriotic Party in the Bono Region who is not happy about the utterances by Abronye expressed worry about the attack on the Dormaahene.
In a write-up sighted by Masemtvgh.com, the obviously unhappy member of the NPP recounted a number of similar attacks by the NPP Bono Regional chairman on various Chiefs in the Bono Region.
According to the member ”presently and currently, these Traditional Councils who are Members of the Bono Regional House of Chiefs perceive our Party in a certain way; Banda Ahenkro, Drobo, Sunyani and now Dormaa. Even the Muslim fraternity feel aggrieved by previous comments made by some Members of our Party” he revealed.
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THE NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY, BONO REGION
With no malice and prejudice, this is one of the videos by Oseadeyo Agyemang Badu II, the Overlord of the Dormaa in circulation and i am yet to see other videos in contradiction of this particular one.
Among others, Osagyefo has raised some developmental concerns during his clean up tour on the Dormaa Traditional areas notably projects.
I have carefully watched some of the videos of Dormaahene on social media and have taken judicial notices of same.
May I respectfully state that as a political Party our attempt to respond to some of the comments made by Chiefs on developmental issues should be carefully measured to avoid serious conflicts between our political Party and Tradition.
As a political Party, we serve as an embodiment of decorum and decency. Political Parties came to existence through Democracy and we need to be very tolerant. We must be more disciplined in our composure, demeanor, utterances that will be appealing to Ghanaians to give us another mandate to break the Eight (8).
Presently and currently, these traditional Councils who are Members of the Bono Regional House of Chiefs perceive our Party in a certain way; Banda Ahenkro, Drobo, Sunyani and now Dormaa. Even the Muslim fraternity feel aggrieved by previous comments made by some Members of our Party.
Let me congratulate the people of Dormaa and its environs, thus; Dormaa Central, Dormaa East and areas like Sunyani ( Kotokrom, Yawhima, New Dormaa), Chiraa in Sunyani West, Bomaa in Tano North. The New Patriotic Party has always won these areas of Dormaa stool lands . Even in 2016, Dormaa West was won by the NPP for the first time and lost in 2020.
Though Chiefs do not take part in partisan politics, whenever we visited the Dormaa Traditional areas with our Flagbearers or Presidents, it is evidently clear that about 90% of the traditional leaders and their queen mothers support the New Patriotic Party.
We may be right in responding to comments made by the Chiefs but I strongly believe that “vindication is in the womb of time. If you react to present circumstances you can miss the future and tomorrow. Do not allow what you are going through today or dealing with today to worry you because tomorrow, it will mean nothing to you. The temptations, trials, embarrassment, scandal, reproach, misrepresentation and everything you are dealing with today is a passing wind and it will pass.”
We should always remember that, largely our campaign is made up of courtesy calls to our Traditional Authorities and whatever step we take we must be careful. There is a clear difference between being in Government and being in Opposition therefore we must be extra careful.
We must refrain from taunting our own Party folks, Traditional Authorities, the Clergy, identifiable and unidentifiable groups whenever they criticize Nana Akufo-Addo – Dr Bawumia government and our government because criticisms make us stronger.
Let us not lose focus in preaching our beautiful developmental projects and encouraging our Government to do more for the citizenry.
Breaking the Eight (8) will not be achieved on a silver platter. We need to reconcile our Party and be beautifully flaming in unity towards 2024.
I am a proud son of Dankwa, Dombo Busia Traditional.
