{"id":16029,"date":"2024-05-31T14:45:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T14:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=16029"},"modified":"2024-05-31T14:45:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T14:45:03","slug":"naa-torshie-running-mate-ambition-causing-disunity-in-npp-party-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=16029","title":{"rendered":"Naa Torshie Running Mate Ambition Causing Disunity in NPP- Party Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It<strong> appears District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) Administrator, Irene Naa Torshie Addo, is on a \u201cdesperate spending spree&#8221; to court the support of party members to advance her running mate ambition &#8211; some New Patriotic Party (NPP) members in the Ashanti region claim.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Her activities have drawn the anger of many party members who have called on the party leadership to take immediate action on the matter in order not to jeopardise the \u2018breaking the 8\u2019 agenda.<\/p>\n<p>According to the party members she has allegedly been using her office to influence party members to back her move.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cWhat she is doing will come back to hurt the party very soon,&#8221; a concerned party member in the Ashanti Region remarked.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A major strategy she has adopted is deploying her &#8216;boy\u2019 Augustine Collins Ntim, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Offinso North, to go round to sell her to party members.<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday, Ntim who is a former Deputy Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, managed to attend a meeting of constituency secretaries of the NPP in the Ashanti Region in Kumasi where he dwelt his speech on Naa Torshie much to the surprise of the gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Ntim who lost his parliamentary primary, and was also sacked from his deputy ministerial position by President Akufo-Addo is now doing the work of her \u2018boss\u2019 Naa Torshie.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16031\" src=\"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/FB_IMG_1717165585734.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"627\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Party members including metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs) who spoke on the matter say they suspect wrongdoing and called on President Akufo-Addo to investigate how the Common Fund is being applied.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: Peacefmonline.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) Administrator, Irene Naa Torshie Addo, is on a \u201cdesperate spending spree&#8221; 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