Confusion in PNC?

THERE is total confusion within the front of the People’s National Convention (PNC).
While the Interim Management Committee (IMC) says it has dissolved the National Executive Committee NEC), the NEC insists that it is only congress that can take such action.
This is despite the fact that the issue of the legitimacy of the NEC was part of the reasons why the IMC and the NEC were battling it out in a law court.
A statement signed by the Chairman of the IMC, Mr Basili Wasai, and dated on February 12, 2011, noted that a national delegates congress would be held at Sunyani on June 25, 2011, to elect officers to manage the affairs of the party for the next four years.
“The NEC has been dissolved and therefore all correspondence and other matters related to the party should be address to the IMC,” it said.
It added that the IMC would organise early congress this year, starting with constituency elections from March 30 to April 15, 2011, to be followed by regional party conferences to be held in all the 10 regions between April 30 and May 15, 2011.
According to the statement, the discussion was arrived at during a meeting attended by the IMC, regional chairmen and other officials of the PNC to discuss matters concerning the party.
The IMC also cautioned that no party member would be allowed to vote in any of the constituency, regional and national delegates conferences without proof of the fact that he or she was a registered and card holding members of the PNC in good standing, as required by the party’s constitution.
Reacting, the General Secretary of the PNC, Mr Bernard Mornah, expressed surprise that the very people who have filed an application at the law court challenging the legitimacy of the NEC would issue such a statement.
He, however, noted that in the scheme of things of the PNC constitution, there was nothing like IMC and also it was the congress, the highest decision body of the party, that can nullify the NEC, which is also the second highest decision body of the party.