1) Prof Mike Oquaye’s Committee has presented its Report to the National Council of NPP, and made recommendations on account of its interactions with the Party at the grassroot and other levels. The purpose of the entire exercise was to identify what were the causes; and what and who were responsible for the causes of the disastrous performance of the Party;

2)The whats and the whos were to help us uncover the wounds, dress the open wounds, bind and heal, no matter how painful. This second stage was intended to lead us into proposals, ie, recommendations, to avoid the pitfalls of yesterday and move on as one army, poised to conquer;

3)Prof Oquaye is an Akufo-Addo-like old warrior trusted to show solidarity where and when it mattered. Others weren’t enthused, and requested him to step aside. The old boy was determined to function, not without suspicions, though;

4)Sub-Committees of the parent committee fanned out to the various regions to gather raw information from Party officers in the various Constituencies. The main Cttee thereafter came together to meet the former President, HE Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo. They were blunt with him: 70% of all the respondents put the blame of the Party’s abysmal performance on Nana Akufo Addo. Before the group left him, he pleaded that that part should not appear in the final Report. Lo and behold! That portion did not find space in the final Oquaye-led Report;

5)The usual suspect, the ubiquitous Gabby Otchere Darko was sent on another errand: to request Prof Oquaye not to apportion blame to anyone in the Report as that, in Gabby and his superiors’ view, might further divide the party up. In other words, if commissions or commissions that led to the Party’s failure were attributable to–
i, Party Officers at National, Regional, or whatever level;
ii, the former President or any specific member of his Government;
iii, the Presidential Candidate, or any of his assigns;
iv, the Running Mate;
v, the erstwhile Presidential Candidate hopefuls some of whom used very offensive, vile and divisive language against the former President, the then Government, and the Presidential Candidate and his family,
those names should not be mentioned in the Report. Prof Oquaye’s response to the directive was immediate: “Yours Obedient Servant”. “Your word is my bond” Truly those names supplied by the respondents have all been taken off the final Report!!

6) Whilst all these were happening backstage, there was a spirited attempt to get self-same Prof Oquaye, a priest of the Baptist Church to shift a great deal of the blame to Bawumia who Akufo Addo has now told bluntly that he is not going to support again. Oquaye was to confront Bawumia on the chieftaincy in Bawku, and when that happened, Bawumia was to respond simply that it was a national security issue to which he would not talk. After that engagement with the Committee, Oquaye was to provide for it in the Report.
Bawumia was candid and blunt on the subject matter at Rock City when he addressed the MPs: he had no knowledge about the entry into Bawku of his clansman, who claims the skin of Bawku. Akufo Addo’s plaintive response when it came to his turn was that the Bawku matter is classified national security issue and until it is declassified, he cannot speak to it. The courage of Bawumia instantly killed that plot to hang the crisis on the neck of Dr Bawumia. What an anchor he has in Allah!

7)The multi-million question is, apart from deleting the per centages of respondents who attributed the collosal loss of the Party to various factors and persons; and also taking out the names of the people that the respondents said should be held accountable for the loss of the Party in the December 2024 Presidential and Parliamentary elections, which Professor Oquaye has dutifully done, what is the material difference between the Oquaye Report which covered the entire nation and the Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu Report which covered only the Ashanti Region?? Nothing whatsoever!! So those who were sponsored to attack Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu and the proactive Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Party, Chairman Wontumi, should bow down their heads in shame. Good thinking, Chairman Wontumi. Truth, like cork, that is suppressed under water shall always prevail. Kudos to the Ashanti Team that did such yeoman’s job in record time.

8)And please, Professor Oquaye, having done that huge surgery on the Report, how are you helping the Party to confront the reality and frontally deal with the issues identified? How does your Report reflect the responses of the respondents having taken the names they supplied out? Doesn’t it now turn out as a doctored Report with the huge surgery done, Prof, to suit the whims and caprices of some people?
Lead kindly light, NPP will and must resurrect.Source:Akwasi Odame Jnr,USA