We’ve not received petition for Agyapong’s reinstatement — Freddy Blay

The hierarchy of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is yet to receive any official petition demanding the reinstatement of its suspended General Secretary, Mr Kwabena Agyapong.

This is regardless of a number of groups making appeals in the media for the NPP hierarchy to forgive him.

The NPP suspended its Second Vice Chairman, Mr Sammy Crabbe, alongside Mr Agyapong in 2015 after they were accused of publicly rebelling against the party’s decision to indefinitely suspend its National Chairman, Mr Paul Afoko.

Messrs Afoko and Crabbe subsequently filed a suit over their suspension, but both suits were thrown out by the court.

Speaking to Citi News, the acting National Chairman of the NPP, Mr Freddy Blay, said the NPP had no intention of reversing what he called justified suspensions.

“Nothing has come before us. The National Executive Council took the decision. The National Council endorsed it. Nothing has been done about it… they were suspended indefinitely for some good reasons and nobody has thought it proper that this matter should be raised again,” he noted.

Mr Blay further defended the party’s decision to suspend them as being the right move as it had no effect on the NPP’s election fortunes.

“There were people who were agitating that since they [Kwabena Agyapong, Sammy Crabbe and Paul Afoko] had been suspended, we were going to totally lose the election, particularly the National Democratic Congress (NDC) or sympathetic media that support the NDC. They have been put to shame. We won,” he stated.