Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah, one of the Presidential aspirants of the National Democratic Congress
(NDC) has observed that the party must look for the founder and leader of the
party, former President Jerry John Rawlings to join the 2020 electioneering
campaign.
He said the supporters must do a critical
search and find out why former President Rawlings and his wife, Nana Konadu
Agyeman Rawlings had moved away from NDC party’s activities over the past
years, which contributed to the defeat of the party in the 2016 elections.
Dr. Spio-Garbrah made this known to the Media
when he addressed delegates from Agona East, Agona West and Gomoa Central
Constituencies, as part of his tour of the Central region to campaign for votes
at Agona Swedru.
He said the former President Rawlings still
believes in the principles of probity, accountability and integrity, which to
him, is the greatest panacea for the NDC to win power, but that had eluded the
party.
Dr. Spio-Garbrah made reference to the Bible to
buttress his case by saying, “God gave mankind 10 commandants to follow in
order to become succeed in life, but if you fail in one of them, consequence
may visit you and you will suffer”.
He said like the Islamic faith, which has five
pillars that are the tenets of the faith, no Muslim would like to falter on
that, to go against the Islamic religion.
Dr. Spio-Garbrah said the leader and founder of
NDC had said that some NDC functionaries hands are tainted with corruption,
bribery and malfeasance and this had demoralized him to stay on and campaign
for the party.
He said these core values that inspired the
former President Rawlings to form NDC has become mirage and it is about time
party members do a soul searching and find out the reasons behind the founder
and the wife distancing themselves from the party.
Dr. Spio-Garbrah said he stands tall among all
the Presidential candidates of the NDC because he had contested the race before
and people know his capacity to deliver.
He said as a communication expert, there are
so many strategies would be put in place to empower women and the youth wings,
especially at the grass roots level.
Dr. Spio-Garbrah said the NDC lost miserably in
2016 because the grass roots were neglected, adding that, the grass roots is
the foundation of the party hence the apathy that hit the members.
The Presidential Aspirant also urged the
National Executive Council of the NDC to publish certain portions of the Dr.
Kwesi Botchwey’s report, which investigated why the NDC lost the 2016 election,
to enable supporters of the party to make amends.
He called on the National Executive council
(NEC) to discard the notion that if the report is made public, the New
Patriotic Party (NPP) would use it as a weapon against the party in the 2020
elections, and questioned how majority of NDC members would know what caused
the defeat of the party, if the report is not made public.
Dr. Spio-Garbrah hinted that no corruption,
malfeasance and bribery scandalous charges were made against him during his
tenure in office, both in Ghana and abroad, and that qualify him as the best
candidate to lead NDC in 2020 elections.
Source: GNA
