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January 31, 2011
The Chiefs and Elders of Oguaa Traditional Council have accepted the New Patriotic Party(NPP)’s pleas and have decided to lay to rest the matters arising out of P.C Appiah Ofori’s utterances at the Fetu Afahye last year.
The party in a statement signed by Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, General Secretary of NPP, said “In a letter dated 27th January 2011, and signed in Cape Coast, by both the Omanhen Osabarima Kwasi Atta II and Mr. Fred Oware, 1st Vice Chairman of the NPP on behalf of the traditional Council and the NPP respectively both parties have agreed to let peace prevail.
“The Omanhen and the Council wish to work together with the NPP to promote peace and deepen the cordial relationship which has existed between the Palace, Council and the party’’.
“According to the letter, Osabarima and the Council hold no grudges against the NPP nor the Presidential Candidate Nana Akufo-Addo and other party functionaries’’.
The Member of Parliament for Asikuma-Odobeng-Brakwa Constituency attracted the wrath of the chiefs and people of the Oguaa traditional area for describing an incident at the Oguaa Fetu Afahye as ‘adegyangyan,’ to wit, “a useless thing.”
Mr P.C. Appiah Ofori was incensed by the failure of the Oguaa Manhene, Osabarima Kwesi Atta, to acknowledge the presence of the presidential candidate of the NPP, Nana Akufo-Addo, during a durbar at a festival celebration in Cape Coast in September 2010.Nana Addo was also prevented from greeting the Oguaa Manhene.
It would be recalled the entire entourage of the NPP, led by its flag bearer Nana Akufo-Addo, was prevented by Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, an aide to the President, from greeting the President.
Mr Appiah Ofori said the Omanhene sitting by and watching on whilst such an incident unfolded without the chief uttering a word is rather shameful.
But the Oguaa Traditional Council said the MP’s “adzegyangyan” description of the incident amounted to an insult and that he must be made to face the full rigors of the traditional rules and customs.
Hon. Appiah Ofori refused to apologize for his comment which resulted into an impasse between himself and the Oguaa Traditional Council, until the matter was recently resolved.
Story by : Kwdawo Anim/ghanamps.gov.gh