A former NDC coordinator of the Trobu-Amassaman Constituency and spokesperson of the NDC ex-coordinators, Mr Augustine Asafo, has appealed to the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to go to the founder of the party, Flt Lt J.J. Rawlings, to apologise to him in order to reorganise the party for victory in the 2020 election.
He said if that was done and the response from the founder was favourable and communicated to the grass roots, the coordinators would also rally around former President Rawlings to win in 2020.
Touching on the Rawlings factor in the election, he said when one’s grandfather told a story, it would not be necessary to go back to ask your father whether it was true or false.
He emphasised that it was because of Rawlings that most grass-roots supporters in the NDC were still holding on to the party despite the ill treatment. Mr Asafo further explained that if Flt Lt Rawlings, after NDC’s defeat, was not made to be in charge of the affairs of the party as the founder, then the party could not stand as was expected.
Party hijacked
Mr Asafo noted that it was unfortunate that some people had hijacked the party and were trying to sideline the founder of the party who toiled very hard to form the NDC.
He said if the NDC hijackers wanted the party to continue to survive and for the coordinators to continue to be in it then they had to go to Flt Lt Rawlings to apologise to him.
Mr Asafo stressed that the disunity within the NDC at the grass-roots level was massive to the extent that many DCEs were on bad terms with their own Members of Parliament (MPs) which was also one of the reasons the NDC lost the elections.
He also said the attitude of sacking people from the party and preventing particular people from contesting primaries were all recipe for failure.
Dangerous decisions
At a press briefing at Amassaman near Accra at the weekend, Mr Asafo said the NDC suffered the recent electoral defeat because of some dangerous decisions taken by the leadership of the party at the national, regional and constituency levels.
He said for example that a key reason why the party lost the polls to the NPP was because of the abrupt dismissal of the NDC coordinators who used to work hard by liaising between the branches and the constituencies.
Sacked coordinators
Mr Asafo emphasised that because the coordinators were sacked, branches could not get information from the constituencies leading to information blackout. He said it was very sad that the NDC, which was the party in power, could not mobilise flags to be hoisted at vantage points in remote areas of his constituency and other areas in the country, let alone the provision of other logistics needed for effective campaign.
The sacked NDC coordinator noted that when he was in office as a coordinator, he was able to put flags on the poles in villages and towns in Ga West in Amassaman, sometimes in the night, only to be sacked along with his colleague coordinators because of selfishness.
Mr Asafo said any time one person was sacked from a party, what it implied was that family members and friends of the victim were also sacked; politics is all about numbers.He said if the party reorganised itself well, it could come back in 2020 to continue its people-centred policies which Flt?Lt Rawlings initiated in the 1990s.
He said the next NDC government should consist of mature, well-educated and experienced ministers, MPs, DCEs, MCEs, and not young inexperienced appointees.
He further said the next NDC government should take a cue from former Presidents Rawlings and Kufuor who appointed mature and experienced men and women as their ministers, adding that it was little wonder the two statesmen completed their two terms before exiting office.
Source: GNA
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Confusion ay3 basaa...lol... if Moses doesn't go to the mountain the mountain will go to Moses. Ajeeeeiiii next time
No sensible person in Ghana will vote for this criminal party. Who in NDC is not corrupt, apart from Amidu? Ten presidents spent 9.5 Billion Cedis, Mahama and Atta Mills in 8 years spent 110Billion Cedis.
It is wrong for anyone to say the party was hijacked. What else do you want if those pledged their blood for the party have deserted it. Nana Konadu has gone to form her own party and the husband is calling for change when he should be encouraging moving forward. The very people you describe as hijackers were rather those who saved the party. Don't bring yourself.
NDC will never get my vote, if Rawlings gets himself involved. He selfish and always want people to bow to him. His days are over.
Dr. Obed Asamoah, "here is your stone". If the leaders of the NDC then had listened to your advice not to capture in the NDC constitution as the founder, this man ev1l man would have not be sitting in this over blotted ego. You became the head of state of Ghana through a coup in your early thirties and you have the effrontery to call someone a baby with sharp teeth???? Ghanaians have forgiven you for all the atrocities and killings with some still missing persons till date. You killed and jailed people for just taking loans from banks they were working as managers and what did you do to state properties??? You gave them away to your wife..... Fast forward, you have the nerve to call someone corrupt??? Because of your controlling nature to conspire with your "enemy" to work against the party you claim you were the "founder"?? Know that what ever a man sows, same shall he reap....You and your wife formed a party NDP to reduce the fortune of the NDC because you are not allowed to be in control and when that didn't work out, the pact with the "enemy" which momentarily you have succeeded and so you think you can take over the party??? it will not happen. I have forgotten about use of bitter Amidu...YOU ARE NOT god.... The evil that men do leaves after them, you shall surely pay
why should they apologise to him? he's the one that needs to apologise cos he gave the npp arsenals to use against his own party.
Well, if you have no job to do and stand on your own feet you continue to massage the ego of a man who was helped in several ways but when it got to others turn found faults with almost everyone who needed to be supported. Apart from his wife and children, all others must serve him and him only. All the names members of the past are being called originated from this same man others asking people to go and apologized. If I have my way, all should leave the party for him and his family to own and run. Until the day, he lases his boots to either campaign for the NDC, there he will hear these same NPP guys praising him raining insults on him. Why should an opposition leader praise and thank this man after winning an election? The law of karma will visit him one day.
Why should they run to Rawlings when he was the one who abandoned the party? Isnt the whole greater than the sum of its parts? For Christsake this guy is mentally unstable and im sure even if Jesus were to work with him there will be huge problems. Please let us maintain the stausquo and continue to develop our democratic parties devoid of autocrats and self-aggrandizing people papa J