Mr Stephen Ashitey Adjei, an outspoken executive member of the Tema East Constituency branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has advised the party to stay focused in the face of the tribulations they are facing.
“I therefore wish to call on my party staty focused and forgive the NPP, for the sake of this beautiful country of ours. Because if the NDC decides to retaliate, Ghana will be in flames and as the party of the masses, we owe it to our motherland to show maturity.”
Speaking at a News conference in Accra, the man who is affectionately called ‘Moshake’ said the current happenings against the party was yet another small era in Ghana’s political history, in which the NDC’s reputation as the midwife of the fourth Republic was being tried.
He mentioned the case of the National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, as some of the machinations; government was carrying out to frustrate their party.
“The latest incursion by the government on Ofosu-Ampofo, is the claim that a recent wave of kidnappings and market fires are the making of the NDC Chairman; an allegation that has disgusted many.
“Many people may find what the NPP is doing as strange, but I am not one of those people; why because, I have seen it all before.
“After Kufuor came to power in 2000, even worst things happened to NDC and its members, such as; Dan Abodakpi, Tsatsu Tsikata and Victor Selormey who were jailed with the latter dying in jail,” Moshake said.
“Their intent then was to destroy the NDC through rough tactics.”
He said through the instrumentality of Dr Obed Asamoah, then National Chairman of the NDC and Mr Alban Bagbin, the NDC stayed on its feet even though many of the party’s members fled into exile.
“And yet we went ahead to win the election, against all odds, in 2008 led by President Mills.
“We are going to come to power again because I believe that God himself is with us; the Ghanaian people have their choice clearly made for them because the NPP has made itself so unattractive, Moshake said.
He commended his party for its peaceful conduct in spite of the provocation from the NPP during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence. “Ayawaso West brought us on the brink of war, only the NDC’s maturity saved this country. I ask my party to continue being peaceful for the sake of this country,” Moshake said.
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