Stephen Ntim, the National Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), has issued an unconditional apology to the management of UTV following an incident in which some angry NPP youth illegally entered the TV station’s studios.
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, during a live broadcast of the show “United Showbiz,” a group of NPP members stormed the UTV studios, demanding the removal of Kwame Asare Obeng, also known as A Plus, who was a regular analyst on the show.
The group was upset because A Plus had torn up a letter from the NPP leadership to UTV requesting changes to the “United Showbiz” panel.
Chairman Ntim, clearly unhappy with the conduct of the NPP youth, visited Peace FM studios on Thursday and publicly condemned their actions. In offering the apology, he assured that the party’s leadership would ensure that such unacceptable behavior would not be repeated.
“On behalf of the party, I’m rendering an unqualified apology to the management of Despite media, to you Kwami Sefa Kayi and all Ghanaians for what happened. The NPP tradition does not countenance such misbehaviour as we are noted to be disciplined people.” Chairman Ntim stated in an interview.
He further mentioned, “You know me, there have been several incidents where I have been provoked but I never reacted and always maintained my cool and this is the sort of quality I want to transcend to party members from the National to polling station levels. I want everyone to have self-control in our political discourse.
“Internally, we will put measures in place to ensure that this sort of behaviour does not reoccur. This assurance goes to all media houses across the country.”
