Former
Central Region Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC),
Bernard Allotey Jacobs, has urged party delegates to vote out General
Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, during national executive elections.
According
to him, some executives at the party’s headquarters have organised
themselves into a mafia and are stalling the progress of the party ahead
of general elections in 2020.
This mafia, according to him, is headed by Asiedu Nketia.
Speaking
on Adom FM, Monday the vociferous former Chairman of the party said
“for me personally I’m supporting Koku Anyidoho. There is a need for a
change at the NDC headquarters. A lot of the mafia in the NDC
headquarters must be changed”.
The NDC organised its regional elections over the weekend which saw some huge surprises.
Five
heavyweights were given the shocks of their lives last when they were
defeated in their quest to become regional chairmen of the party in
their respective regions.
They are the former Transport Minister,
Ms. Aku Dzifa Attivor, who failed in her bid to lead the NDC in the
Volta Region; the incumbent Eastern Regional Chairman, Mr. Bismark
Tawiah Boateng, who was also booted out as regional chairman; a former
Central Regional Minister, Mr. Aquinas Tawiah Quansah, who was floored
in the Central Regional polls and Mr. Joseph Yammin, who was also
defeated in the Ashanti Regional delegates elections.
In the
Western Region, incumbent Michael Aidoo aka Big Aidoo also lost his
position as chairman whereas the Greater Accra Regional Chairman, Mr.
Joseph Kobina Ade Coker, retained his position after a closely contested
election.
Allotey Jacobs, a former Board Member of the
Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), said he believes in blending both
old and new executives to steer the affairs of the party, however, he
thinks the party is going about it wrongly. He warns that the party
risks losing in 2020.
He says there are certain people within the
old executives whose commitment to the party and organizational skills
were commendable and must be supported to contest again.
Allotey
Jacobs also cautioned his party members about the strength of their
opponents saying “the NPP [New Patriotic Party] must not be taken for a
joke and I keep on saying it and I will always say it because our
experience in politics gives us the dynamics so if we don’t get the
right people to stand up to the NPP, then forget it.”
Meanwhile, he has exempted John Mahama from the leadership that must be changed.
According
to him, John Mahama stands tall amongst all the presidential aspirants
because all the other aspirants are all his former appointees and “a
student cannot be better than his tutor”.
Allotey Jacobs has also
described political pundits predicting doom for president Mahama in the
general election as making “jaundice analysis.”
He says it would
be premature for people to say Mahama will lose because the Ghanaian
electorates are becoming critical as the day goes by. |
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