General Secretary of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), James Kwabena Bomfeh has educated the public to stop referring to President Akufo Addo’s administration as New Patriotic Party (NPP) government.
According to him, the constitution does not recognise a political party as government but rather the person elected, thus, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and not New Patriotic Party.
Likewise an NDC under Mahama should be called John Mahama government and not National Democratic Congress government.
Speaking on Peace FM’s’Kokrokoo’ Kwabena Bomfeh said, “In fact, should President Nana Akufo-Addo decide today to exit the New Patriotic Party, he will continue to be President because as much as he was elected on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party, he is President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. There’s no NPP government .There has never been an NDC government. In our constitutional arrangement, it’s not parties that form government but rather the person who has been elected.”
He further bemoaned the inconsistencies in the constitution insisting it needs a complete overhaul.
“The whole structure of the constitution and the politics we’re doing under this fourth Republican dispensation, I want to conclude that the case for a constitutional overhaul is eminent and it’s imperative.”
Source: GhanaFeed.com