The Minority Leader, Mr. Alban Bagbin has accused the ruling New Patriotic Party of plotting to pull down the National Democratic Party.
Some press reports yesterday suggested that factional fighting in the NDC, which bordered on the personality of former president Jerry Rawlings were threatening the unity of the party.
Reacting to the reports that suggested that the NDC was breaking apart because of the emergence of regional factions in its ranks, Bagbin said it was the NPP that was orchestrating them in an attempt to destroy the NDC and create a one party state.
But Bagbin, speaking on a radio programme yesterday said what opponents of the party were calling factions were rather caucuses of the various interest groups and that the NPP was hyping the issue in order to demoralize the rank and file of the NDC. He said the NDC should be left alone to reorganize and offer a strong opposition.
“This is unfortunate and not in the interest of democracy and should be discouraged,” the Minority leader said.
The NDC during its twenty years in power had been accused by various political, interest, religious and pressure groups of using the coercive forces of the state to silence them.
Just this Monday, the leadership of the Methodist Church in an incisive and frontal attack, accused the PNDC and NDC governments of trying to muzzle the church during the tenure of the two governments.
Source: GhanaWeb
