The NDC says the party is ready to have it’s 10th National Delegates Congress on the 17th December, 2022 at the Accra Sports Stadium where various positions will be up for grabs as the party elect new executives to mount the affairs of the party into the 2024 General elections.
Among the various positions, the National Chairmanship position will be hotly contested as the General Secretary of the of the party Johnson Asiedu Nketia is vacating his office to strangely contest the incumbent Dr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo for the National Chairmanship.
Speaking on Ahotor 92.3 Fm’s morning show Adekye Mu Nsem with host Citizen Kofi Owusu, Communications Director of the NDC at the Ablekuma West Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Yaw Mainoo picked Dr. Ofosu-Ampofo over Asiedu Nketia.
“I know what Chairman Ofosu-Ampofo has done for the NDC as the National Chairman, I am a delegate and I like his successes for the NDC I will vote for him”.
“I have People who listen to me who are delegates as well, I will talk to them to vote for Ofosu-Ampofo I won’t hide it” He told Kofi Owusu.
He praised Dr. Ofosu-Ampofo for not campaigning by attacking personalities as what his other contestant is doing but rather selling his achievements to the delegates peacefully.
“This is a Leader you need in any organisation to move it forward, the man is courageous by nature he thinks before he act and you see, that is a sign of a smart person”.
“Some people say Chairman Ofosu-Ampofo don’t talk, it’s a lie the man talks like a patriot, but he knows where to talk and how to talk he don’t just open his mouth”.
Yaw Mainoo urged his fellow delegates to vote for Dr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo as the National Chairman come 17th December, 2022.
“I will plead with my fellow delegates to think about this, why is Asiedu Nketia contesting Ofosu-Ampofo who has been the chairman just for 4 years and not that he is not performing too he is performing why why I don’t get it”
“Asiedu Nketia has a different agenda for the NDC which the signs are not good at all, the NDC will die under him as Chairman and that’s exactly what he wants. Let’s all vote for Ofosu-Ampofo fellow delegates”.
He said the achievements for the party under Ofosu-Ampofo shouldn’t be overlooked in decision making for any delegate who want the NDC to win power in 2024.
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.
Mr 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.
Mr 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,” Mr Ampofo maintained.
Story by: Emmanuel Romeo Tetteh / Ahotoronline.com
