Wontumi would have been suspended in NDC over attacks on party leadership – Mustapha Gbande

The Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mustapha Gbande, has said the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, would have been suspended if he had publicly criticised his party's national leadership while serving in the NDC.

His remarks follow Chairman Wontumi's public allegations that the NPP's General Secretary, Justin Kodua Frimpong, and Acting National Chairman, Danquah Smith Buttey, were attempting to frustrate his bid to become the party's next National Chairman.

The dispute arose after the NPP's national leadership annulled the results of three constituency executive elections in the Ashanti Region and directed the regional executives to explain the circumstances surrounding the polls.