The Regional Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Upper East Region Elvis Awonekai has responded to the petition by the aggrieved members of the NPP Upper East Communication team by way of schooling them on procedures of appointment by the Regional Executive.
The new development emerges after 33 regional communication team members of the New Patriotic Party in the Upper East Region petitioned the office of the Party National Communication Directorate in Accra to intervene following the appointment of the Regional Communication Director Peter Ayinbisa.
According to their petition by the aggrieved Communicators sighted by apexnewsgh.com, the appointment “must be done based on a broader consultation with the National Executive Committee. However, we had a situation whereby people were appointed without prior application to the tenets of good communication. Ignoring the simple fact of consulting the stakeholders in the Communication Team, many times, ended the Regional Officers appointing persons who do not reside within the capital or never had the time to play that role effectively, and most times, this breeds a lot of conflict within the communication wing in the region. part of the petition captured.
However, responding to the said petition, the Regional Secretary of governing NPP, Elvis Figo Awonekai schooled the communicators in a letter sighted by Apexnewsgh.com.
He said: “The Upper East Regional Executives have been served with a copy of the above petition. Although we are not the addressee of the petition, we deemed it necessary to respond to same in order to set the records straight and to educate the petitioners in our collective resolve to serve our great party, God and Country.”
He further added: “The petition was wrongly addressed as the Regional Executives are not answerable to the National Communications Director in the discharge of our constitutional mandate humbly placed on us following the 28th May, 2022 Regional Executives Elections. Therefore our response to this petition should and ought to be construed as a way of setting the records straight but not an endeavor to legitimize the petition since in carrying out our functions we are by no means answerable to the National Communications Director,” portions of the 7-paged letter read.
“The choice of words in the heading of the petition are highly incendiary and manifestly confrontational as a reading of the entire petition has not and cannot demonstrate the appropriateness of this choice of words – “bad faith” and “political vendetta”. We never promised the Team any appointment for which reason the bona fide of the Regional Communications Officer’s appointment can be called into question. The petition, ab initio, is therefore written in a vain attempt to set us on a collision cause with the Regional Communication Team without any justifiable basis. This unsolicited invitation will obviously be refused by us as we strive to execute our mandate with all hands on deck.”
“In the appointment of the Seven (7) appointed Regional Officers as specified in clauses (2) and (8) of Article 9 of the NPP Constitution, the Regional Executive Committee does not feature at all. Article 7 relied on by the petitioners’ deals with constituency organization but not regional. Still, in paragraph 4 of the petition, there were consultations, lobbying, and engagements made prior to the appointment of the Regional Communications Officer. It must be put on record that at least five (5) known members of the Communications Team – petitioners made one contact or another lobbying as it were as individuals for the position of the Regional Communications Officer.”
However, the Reg. Secretary also pointed out to the striking communicators that, it is not a must to appoint a communication director from a communication team.
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