Communicators of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region have collectively resolved to go off the airwaves in protest against their seeming neglect by the incumbent NPP.
According to the leader of the communicators in the Ashanti region, Wofa Anokye, he stated that since the electoral victory of the NPP, none of the party executives had called for a meeting to assure them of the party’s plans for them.
Speaking on Accra FM, he said “Since the party won the election, no executive of the party has spoken with us on the way forward for us. When you go the regional office now, you will not find anybody there to speak to and so nobody is hearing our concerns. All the regional executives are jumping from one radio station to the other.
“In 2008 when we lost the elections, Nana Akomea and some other executives met all of us and calmed us down and that showed the level of respect they had for us. They did same in 2012, but the situation is not the same now after the 2016 elections. At least we expect that they will speak to us and assure us that it is early days yet and so we should be patient, everything will be fine but nobody is talking to us. Until they speak to us we will no longer speak on behalf of the party.â€
Meanwhile, NPP Director of Communications in the Ashanti Region Kwesi Kyei, has requested the communicators to calm down and that their needs will soon be addressed.
“I know their concerns and I know how they feel, but I want to tell them that they should be patient. There is no way they will be neglected; it will never happen,†he guaranteed.
“The aspect where they say they don’t meet executives at the office cannot be true because I am always in the office. In fact, I have even met the communicators, especially the leader, and told him the plans the party has for them and so they should calm down.â€