Former Eastern Regional Minister Mavis Ama Frimpong has declared her support for Dr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo for the Chairmanship position ahead of the December 17th National Delegates Congress.
The NDC is ready to elect new executives to mount the affairs of the party into the 2024 General elections.
Among the various positions up for grabs, the National Chairmanship position will be hotly contested as the General Secretary of the NDC Johnson Asiedu Nketia is vacating his office to contest for the Chairmanship with the incumbent Dr. Ofosu-Ampofo.
But speaking on Ahotor 92.3 Fm’s morning show Adekye Mu Nsem, Hon. Frimpong said “I know Chairman Ofosu-Ampofo, I know what he can do and I know what he has done so I will be selling his achievements to the delegates and I won’t say anything bad about anybody”.
“As a Former Minister I have a vote and I will vote for Ofosu-Ampofo I won’t hide it, the man has really work as the National Chairman, increasing our number of votes and our seats in Parliament, I will vote for him” She told Citizen Kofi Owusu.
She believes the timing of Asiedu Nketia’s decision to contest Dr. Ampofo is wrong but the NDC is a democratic party so they will come out United.
Hon. Mavis called for a United NDC for victory in 2024.
“We all have our choices but let’s not forget this is just Internal elections so no matter what we should be United so that some NPP members will join us to save the country because things are hard now”.
“Just last week I went to bank I saw a young Man crying for losing his investment, things are hard but still the government is taking away the poor man’s investment and I will always say the only party to save Ghana is the NDC but we need to be United so I am praying for a smooth congress” She said.
She urged all delegates and former appointees who are eligible to vote on the 17th of December to consider Dr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo’s achievements as the National Chairman and retain him to help the party win the 2024 elections smoothly.
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