National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Dr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo has finally break silence on the alleged leaked audio from the General Secretary which says the NDC was not having a concrete evidence when they petitioned the Supreme Court over the 2020 election results.
On a tape recording Asiedu Nketia said the NDC was not having evidence when he stood in the dock during cross-examination at the Supreme Court because the NDC had no evidence to back their claims.
“when we collated five Regions; we are told it has crashed. This is the truth. So, when we decided to the court, we agreed to do manual collation. So, we gathered some people to collect the pick sheets and our Chairman sat on the Collation Committee that he will handle the collation. He went for some University people who did some shoddy work. When the time was up for me to stand in the dock, the results that they gave me if I use it to defend the case, I will be disgraced so we couldn’t send those results to the court.
“They then said we should go to lawyer Tsikata. So we carried all the documents and presented them to lawyer Tsikata. These are things we shouldn’t be saying publicly. When we gave them to him and in the next morning, after he had perused them, he replied us saying take back your grasscutter. If these are the things you are sending to the court, go and look for your lawyer because I can’t do this work. This is why when we went to court and they said where are my results, I replied that I didn’t bring any results. I believe you heard that; I don’t know how to lie. I am saying if I become the Chairman, all this nonsense will not happen,” the leaked audio said.
But in reaction to the supposed leaked audio on PM Express on Joy News, the National Chairman of the NDC Dr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo said the party leaders, executives and stakeholders knows the party structures as they will not be discussing party issues in public.
“We’ve sworn oath of allegiance, we are not going to discuss party issues in public, we have the structures, this is not the platform, I will not discuss party issues here, the delegates, leaders of the party all knows our stand” Dr. Ofosu-Ampofo said.
The NDC will be electing new executives to mount the affairs of the party into the 2024 general elections on the 17th of December 2022 at the Accra Sports Stadium.
Among the various positions up for grabs, the National Chairmanship position will be hotly contested as the General Secretary Asiedu Nketia is vacating his office to contest for the Chairmanship position.
Their campaign activities brought about the alleged leaked tape from the camp of Asiedu Nketia which many party faithful has condemned.
But the incumbent National Chairman Dr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo is confident of winning because of his achievements as no leaked tape can distract his victory.
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
