Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, has touted achievements chalked under his leadership.
He said under his tenure, the party has managed to reduce the one million vote deficit it suffered in the 2016 election as well as reclaiming lost parliamentary seats which has resulted in a hung parliament.
The Chairman, who is seeking reelection, said in a September 28 interview with Radio Gold that the current executives have collectively delivered on the mandate given to them in 2018 including ensuring that Parliament has a Speaker who for the first time in history, was not a member of the ruling party
“I can say as the leader of the party that it was through my effort and direction that we were able to achieve all this. Where we have positioned the party now, we believe when we make arrangements like we are doing, for the first time we have had branch elections and they were incident free.
“I doff my hearts for regional executives, and constituency executives. For the past three months, some have not slept at home. They have been crisscrossing between Kumasi and Koforidua.
“The emphasis and the work to strengthen the structures of the party that we have been able to get branch executives and it is now left with constituency executives, we are building the party as a war machinery that we can be able to use to win the 2024 elections,” he said.
Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo added that the NDC has become the most attractive political party in the country. He pointed to the peaceful conduct of the party’s internal election processes so far as the basis for his assertion.
On his reelection bid, the Chairman said he has been able to unify the party which he described as a ‘weapon’ every political party needs.
He said they were able to unite all party members such as Joshua Alabi amongst others who contested former President John Dramani Mahama for the NDC flagbearership ahead of the 2020 polls.
Such intervention he said played a key role in the party’s success at the 2020 polls, having earlier suffered a record one million vote difference in the 2016 elections.
“We gave everyone who contested John Mahama for the flagbearership a job to do. Through that unity of purpose, we were able to perform well at the 2020 polls. We never lost that election. The Supreme Court was the one that did not uphold our case. That is why we have said we won’t go to the Supreme Court in 2024 but we are strengthening the party base at the polling station level,” Ofosu Ampofo said.
The Chairman of the NDC per reports is likely to come up against General Secretary Asiedu Nketiah in the race for Chairmanship in the party’s internal election slated for December 17.
The NDC is also hoping to recapture power from the governing New Patriotic Party who are also bent on breaking the eight-year rotational power cycle between itself and the opposition party.
Source: ghanaweb.com
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Build the war machinery. You and your family will be the first casualty in that war. You talk like somebody whose brain was made in China just because you want power.
EPESSIANS 6;1-4 for long life and peace for yourself , never insult but let your opinion reach out to the masses. Provide solutions because insults and disrespect do not provide jobs or security. if the leaders are wrong, we are all part and together we form the government. before you blame or point fingers, watch the rest of them. if any of the leaders are part of our families, there would a turn. i prefer we suggest and recommend solution to our problem and do our best to make Ghana a better place. Yen ara y'asase ni 3yE abo)den den mayen....... ma )man yi nhia wo, Ghana Man YE w'ara wo de3..........
Does the ndc have leaders who thinks like real humans? I always find it difficult to understand such bunch of criminals calling themselves politicians without thinking about the country called Ghana. You are a political party looking for power and you have no ideas about how you would use the power to bring development to Ghanaians but rather do everything under the sun to destroy the country forgotten that, if Ghana economy collapse under the government and you come to power, you are going to suffer and that suffering will be more than now. The world is not going backwards so if anybody thinks ndc is going to change economy in the years ahead of us is a big lie. Ghanaians saw the abysmal performance of airbus mahama, very greedy and corrupt politician. Ghanaians are suffering because of some bad decisions mahama took as a president, example is giving out the harbor to his friend to operate for 35 good years for only 7 billion, signing bogus energy take or pay contract. The world would laugh at Ghanaians if they bring mahama airbus back as a president. If not greediness, how can a pensioner who receives salary like the president contest elections again or there is no single sensible person in party to lead them?
Why is this ***barred word*** walking about talking trash? He should be in prison by now.
They have shown over and over again that they don’t have ideas, have you ever heard them proposing anything tangible to the National development?
I have the obvious thought that party politics in a democracy is not a violent war machine business. It's all about competition of ideas and the best alternative policies relevant to solving the dire challenges of governance and the economy so that at the end of the day, the living standards of the masses are improved. In this regard, I'm very right that you are incompetent and have done nothing as NDC chairman. You are indeed in the wrong position. That militant option is a failed approach in ***barred word***. It is therefore quite obvious that you have done nothing. What are your ''good works''? What have you done that is going to vindicate you? Is it the propaganda machine that is not productive for the well being of the people? The machine that only creates avenues for corruption, and hence kleptocracy as the only means to sustain political power? I guess you can tell this only to your cohorts, the band of political dishonesty and looters, the NDC, period!