Heated tension between the NPP’s Northern Regional Chairman, Bugri Naabu, and Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister, Otiko Djaba is a negative publicity to the New Patriotic Party, that’s according to a political analyst and lecturer at the University of Cape Coast.
Bugri Naabu and Otiko Djaba clashed in the Northern region on Friday, May 5, 2017, over a misunderstanding between the two.
Speaking to 3News, Jonathan Asante Okyere said the Gender Minister should have understood that, per her ministerial role, she is no longer a party activist and that she should have acted with self-restraint.
“This is, for starters, a very negative publicity for a government that just assumed office in about four months ago. What the Minister [Otiko Djaba] ought to understand is that she is no longer active party participant,” he said.
Mr. Jonathan Asante Okyere said that Otiko Djaba’s ministerial position “would make her meet all manners of people from all walks of life, irrespective of whether they voted for the party [NPP] or not. And so … once you assume such an office you keep quiet.”
He equally chided Bugri Naabu for trading insults and accusations with the minister.
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