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We have tolerated Edward Mahama for too long-PNC Gen. Sec

By Anny Osabutey
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Embattled General Secretary of the Peoples National Convention Atik Mohammed
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Embattled General Secretary of the Peoples National Convention Atik Mohammed says the party has tolerated Dr. Edward Mahama for too long, creating a situation of him feeling superior over everyone.

Mr. Mohammed was suspended by a hurriedly arranged meeting by the party after publicly criticizing Dr. Mahama’s acceptance of an ambassadorial position from the present government.

He said Dr. Mahama went behind the party and its executives to accept the position and that was in avariance with the party’s own rules and structures.

But his outburst was described as contravening the disciplinary structures and was suspended. He however insisted he is still at post and nobody can take him out of his post.

“I was not appointed by Dr. Edward mahama, I was voted for and will not sit down and allow him to undermine me.”

Speaking on Asempa Fm’s “Ekosii Sen” progamme, Mr. Mohammed said the leader of the party has made himself a “god” who believes in his own truth, and not one that is in opposition to his.

He said the leader came to the PNC and since then, the party’s fortunes have deteriorated so fast to what they currently have, where they do not have a single seat in parliament.

“ The most inefficient leader in the party is Dr. Edward Mahama,” he said. “ He started recording low figures before I join the party.”

“Consistently the next election  is worse than the previous one,” he intimated. “ The PNC c does not belong to one individual, is not the property of anyone.”

According to Mr. Mohammed, the party’s leader had planted several obstacles in his way, including asking a subordinate to open letters addressed to him as the scribe of the party.

He said Dr. Mahama does not believe in sanctioning erring party officers so far as they are on his side. He said Director of Communications Emmanuel Wilson was in Nadowli campaigning for Alban Bagbin against  the party’s own candidate Bernard Monarh, who was also seeking to wrestle the seat from him.

“There are pictures to buttress our point,” he said. “When the issue was brought to the attention of Dr. Mahama, he only said everyone has committed treasonable action against the party, so Wilson be left alone.”

 

Atik Mohammed said suspension of anyone lies in the bosom of the party’s Disciplinary Committee and derives its powers from Article 67 of the constitution, which stipulates the conditions under which one is suspended.