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Nii Noi has made a wrong move - Kweku Baako

“I think he [Valentino Nii Noi Nortey] has made a wrong move; he has adopted the wrong option but I understand him and I appreciate his sentiments,” he said.

 

After suffering a defeat in the re-run of the Klottey Korle NPP primary, Mr. Nortey announced his decision to contest the 2016 polls as an independent candidate.

In his announcement, he accused the leadership of the party of not appreciating his efforts made towards the development of the party, as well as thwarting his efforts of representing the NPP in 2016.

Many political commentators are predicting that his move will kill the NPP’s chances of winning the seat back from the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).

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Making his submissions on Joy FM’s News File, Kweku Baako pointed out that Nii Noi Nortey is “hurt and he thinks things were not handled the way they should have handled it.”

“My own investigations tell me that the party leadership did not handle this in a very tidy way – I think it was untidy. When I say party leadership, it includes Nana Addo and I am talking about the leadership even before the Freddie Blay – there is a link between the events and the circumstances that have led to this situation,” he remarked.

Kweku Baako was of the view that Nortey’s “breaking away from a big party and perhaps what he is hoping for is the NDC also having some split but the NDC may be looking at this carefully to help them get their acts together in a better way.”

“Nii Noi is a young man, he’s got a lot of future; I think he is hurt, I sympathise with him, I think he has not been fairly treated and that is my own view.”

He added that “sentimentally, he is right but politically, pragmatically, politically, he has made the wrong move and if he is not careful, it could hurt his future because by their constitution, it means that he is exiting and he has to look at his future.”

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“If he returns, it means he is going to start all over again. To be honest with you, I backed him, I wanted him to win. Perhaps what he shouldn’t have done was to go for the re-run.”

Kweku Baako mentioned that the NDC’s case in that constituency is still unfolding “and we are not sure if their case too might end up with an independent candidate or some withdrawal syndromes.”

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