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A founder member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and a former Ghanaian Ambassador to Serbia, Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, has criticized the trooping of court by leadership of the party, stressing it is �affecting the party at the moment�. He notes that the situation has created a vacuum within the party, which is silently disintegrating it. The former Ghana Football Association Chairman expressed this observation in an interview with TV3�s Kenneth Osei Ampofo on Thursday at his residence in Accra. He notes that NPP has enough competent lawyers who can represent the party in court but �you cannot have the whole leadership of the party in the court�. �The lawyers should take charge of the case in court. Those who have to be there should be there.� Speaking on the two-year suspension slapped on Dr Charles Wereko Brobbey, Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe affirmed that it was too harsh. �I think two years is a strong punishment particularly when [Dr Wereko Brobbey] came out to apologize to [Dr] Bawumia,� he said. �But I think this is a decision taken by the party and we have to abide by it,� he added. He, however, disagreed with Dr Wereko Brobbey on failure of leadership, observing that the party's leadership is competent just that it is yet to notice the general shift within the party. �The old guard should give way to the new guard and this should be done peacefully.�