General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has hit hard at President Nana Akufo-Addo following the latter's directive to members of his administration to undertake further engagements with stakeholders on the upcoming referendum.
The NDC Chief Scribe wondered when the President woke up from his slumber and now wants to consult broadly on the upcoming referedum process.
"...Is the President now going to do broader or further consultation? I thought John Boadu in his press conference said that they did broader consultation and some people disappointed them. Is it now that the President has remembered or when we started the referendum process, he was sleeping and now he is awake to realize that he should do broader consultations at this point?” he cynically asked.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, last week directed that Government undertakes further engagements with stakeholders on the upcoming referendum, in the wake of the controversies and what seem to be divisions that have engulfed the country, heady days to the 17 December polls to decide whether or not partisan politicians could participate in elections at the local assembly level.
As reported by The New Crusading Guide, the purpose of the engagement, according to sources at the Ministry of Information, is to seek to clear up misconceptions about the purpose of the referendum and build consensus on the way forward.
“This round of engagement shall involve His Excellency the Vice President Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Senior Minister Hon. Yaw Osafo Marfo and other Government Officials. Stakeholders such as Religious, traditional bodies, Civil Society Organizations, Journalists, etc are expected to be engaged from Wednesday, November 20, 2019,” the Information Ministry source disclosed.
But Asiedu Nketiah, speaking in an interview on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show wondered if the President had completed the process for broader consultations when he mentioned during his visit to the Volta Region that Ghanaians should vote ‘Yes’ in the December 17 referendum.
“When he stood on the soil of volta region, saying that Ghanaians should vote ‘Yes’ in the December 17 referendum, to mean that we are going to vote to elect MMDCEs, does he come from this country? At that time, has he finished his broader consultations?”
“This simply means that President Akufo-Addo does not understand the work of the referendum; together with their EC, they don’t understand the work very well and they have created their confusion, swimming in it and we are also standing aside watching them in their confusion,” he added.
The NDC General Secretary, however, pointed out that the opposition party is willing to participate in any broader engagement on the referendum as proposed by the President, if only the suggestions that will be raised by the NDC will be implemented by the government.
“We mean well for the country and if they will do the proper thing by coming back to the drawing board to discuss the referendum again genuinely and work with the suggestions we will provide, it will help the country,” he said.
Source: Daniel Adu Darko/Peacefmonline.com/[email protected]
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This peanut brain of a Gen Sec is still talking. I don't blame him but those hollow headed delegates who elected him to that respected office. Skeletal junks make no sense and such is this exactly what he is exhibiting.
Your sleeping mother rather. You are a disgrace to humanity.
The 'sleeping' Akuffo Addo is better respected than the 'skeleton' Johnson Asiedu Nketia
...becomes sp.iritual wick.eness in high places
That a group of people can be this wick.ed is beyond understanding! But when they combine such wick.dness with political populism, then that becomes spiritual wick.edness in high places! The constitutional requirement is such that of a necessity, the President has to get the NDC on his side. And this he did even before the matter came to parliament. He talked to your John Mahama; then he talked to Kuffour and Rawlings. He brought the matter to parliament and your MPs accepted the proposal. Your MPs even added that if it was not made PARTISAN, they won't support it. The government goes ahead and makes it partisan, EC is activated, everyone waiting for Dec 17. Then you beat a wick.ed retreat, you still manage to gather courage and to be organizing press conferences! To tell Ghanaians what? That you can govern this country? You have no idea what day of shame will befall your party the NDC at the next polls! God is watching you all in the NDC!!!