If the opposition National Democratic Congress were to go to congress now to elect a flagbearer to lead the party in the 2020 elections, Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu would have gotten a vote without campaigning.
This is because the former Greater Accra Region Minister Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo believes the leader of the Minority has better credentials to lead the party in the next elections.
He told Drive Time host Lexis Bill in the Personality Profile segment of the show that if he were a woman, he would have married him without blinking an eye.
He touted his eloquence and leadership style as some of the qualities that have endeared Mr Iddrisu to him.
Mr Iddrisu has yet to make public his presidential ambitions even though sources close to him have confirmed to Myjoyonline.com the Minority Leader's ambition to lead the party.
Per the party's constitution, a flagbearer can only be elected two years to an election when the party is in opposition and barely a year if the party is in power.
The NDC with president John Mahama lost the 2016 election to the then opposition New Patriotic Party led by Nana Akufo-Addo who is now the president.
John Mahama was seeking his second term in office, even though it would have been the party's third term in office if he had won.
This means the former president still has the chance to return as the leader of the NDC in 2020 when the country goes to the polls.
However there are a number of potential candidates who have not made public their ambitions but have supporters and identifiable groups within the party subtly campaigning for them.
Former Trades Minister Ekow Spio Garbrah, former NHIA boss, Sylvester Mensah and Prof Joshua Alabi's name have all come as possible flagbearers of the NDC in 2020.
But Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo's said even though he belongs to no camp within the party, he believes Haruna Iddrisu stands tall amongst the candidates.
When Lexis asked him to mention who his favourite candidate is apart from the former president Afotey Agbo said:
"For me there is one person that I have always admired based on his eloquence and his actions and what I have known him for and that is Haruna Iddrisu.
"That is my darling boy or my darling man. If I were to be a woman i would have married him," he said.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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@jonathan have u been to tamale before? stop fooling n travel . only ***barred word*** will sacrifice their river bodies for galamsey, yet u claim u are civilized. ***barred word*** AKANS
fooooolish northerner like this haruna. Northerners do not produce anything. All they know is politics. Even that, they do not use it to help their own poor people. We don't want northerners to lead Ghana. Kwassssshiasem.
is the presidency for people who resemble watchmen?
will never allow another p3 p3 guy like haruna to be prez. That will never happen. Christians and southerners and akans will make sure such a goatherd kola nut chewer who looks like a watchman will not go to jubilee house. never
Only when northerners stop being parasites and also produce gold, cocoa, timber and oil, should they demand to lead. Until then, they better shutttttt the F up!!!
@emmanual wake up call for who? What do you produce to the benefit of the country? When you guys produce the natural resources that pays for running the country, come back and demand to control the resources. You don't produce anything and you get things for free and you are here saying you want to lead. Lead my fooot!!!! Kwasssssshia!
Ok KEEP DENIGRATING NORTHERNERS. OVER THE PAST 7 YEARS I HAVE SLEPT IN THE BUSHES,DANGEROUS PLACES DISPELLING AND CAMPAIGNING TO THIS NOTION THAT SOUTHERNERS THINK WE DON'T DESERVE TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY. SO HERE WE ARE HEARING THESE INSULTING DISPARAGING REMARKS ON ONE OF US. THAT MEANS BAWUMIA WILL BE TREATED SAME. WOW!!! THIS IS A WAKE-UP CALL.
THE NDC CAN'T BE HELPED AND SHOULD STOP THEIR POST-MORTEM ANALYSIS BECAUSE THEY HAVE SINNED AGAINST ALL GODS. THE PARTY AS WHOLE MUST BE EX-COMMUNICATED AND BANISHED FOREVER!!!!!!!
no way akans will vote for another p3p3nin kremo nin. over my deadddd body
@George You are a FOOOOOOOOOOOOL. Akans don't own Ghana but they own the resources that is currently running Ghana so go and tell your p3 p3nin kwashhhhia to dream of becoming prez to decide on how Akan resources should be used. You O-A-F.