National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Dr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo says the current hardships Ghanaians are experiencing is because of how bad the NPP has managed the economy.
Giving a speech at the just ended NDC Women’s and Youth Conference at Cape Coast, Dr. Ofosu-Ampofo said the party to turn things around is the NDC which is the Hope for Ghanaians amidst the current hardships.
“Ghana is at the crossroads and the NDC is Ghana’s only hope and i promise Ghanaians that the NDC will save them from the NPP” he said.
He said the incompetence of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) had imposed severe economic hardships on Ghanaians and assured Ghanaians that the NDC would return the country’s wobbling economy to the path of sustained growth, development, and prosperity for all Ghanaians.
“When we lost the election petition, we quickly started working assiduously to reorganise our internal structures to mobilise massive grassroots backing to bring lasting economic relief to all in 2025.”
Dr. Ampofo was confident that the delegates of the party would vote diligently to elect qualified people to work to unite the party for victory in the 2024 general election.
He said the only way the party could win the upcoming election was to focus on things that united its members rather than what divided them.
“We must exhibit the party’s traits at all times,” he said, and commended all executives for their hard work and commitment to duty, pledging the party’s resolve to build an all-inclusive, united and focused party under the guidance of its core values of freedom, transparency, solidarity, probity, and accountability.
Dr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo will be contested by his General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia who has strangely vacated his position to contest for the National Chairmanship, a contest the incumbent Dr. Ampofo is confident of winning because of his achievements for the party as the National Chairman.
Ofosu-Ampofo touts achievements under his leadership
Ofosu-Ampofo, National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has touted achievements chalked under his leadership.
“Under my tenure, the party has managed to reduce the one million vote deficit it suffered in the 2016 elections as well as reclaiming lost parliamentary seats which has resulted in a hung Parliament,” he affirmed.
Dr Ofosu, who is seeking re-election, noted that the current executives had collectively delivered on the mandate given to them in 2018 including ensuring Parliament had a Speaker who for the first time in history, was not a member of the ruling party.
“I can say as the leader of the party that it was through my effort and direction that we were able to achieve all this, where we have positioned the party now, we believe when we make arrangements like we are doing, for the first time we have had branch elections and they were incident free,” he asserted.
Dr Ampofo doffed his hat for regional and constituency executives who for the past three months had not slept at home, had been crisscrossing between Kumasi and Koforidua, worked hard to strengthen structures of NDC to elect branch executives and it was now left with constituency executives.
According to him, the current leadership of the NDC were building the party as ‘war machinery’ to enable the party win the 2024 elections convincingly because it had become the most attractive political party in the country due to the peaceful conduct of its internal electoral processes so far as basis for his assertion.
“On my re-election bid, I have been able to unify the party which has become a ‘weapon’ every political party needs such intervention which plays key role in the party’s success at the 2020 polls, having earlier suffered a record one million vote difference in the 2016 elections,” Mr Ampofo contended.
He revealed that those who contested former President Mahama for the flag bearer position were given jobs and through that unity of purpose, the party performed well at the 2020 polls and insisted NDC never lost that election but attributed the defeat to the Supreme Court ruling which did not uphold their case.
“We will not go to the Supreme Court in 2024 because we are strengthening the party base at the polling station level,” Dr. Ampofo maintained.
Story by: Emmanuel Romeo Tetteh / Ahotoronline.com
