�That Did The Magic By The Selflessness Of Constituency Executives
Lending contender for the Greater Accra Regional Chairmanship position in the ruling National Democratic Congress, Henry Manly-Spain, has attacked a pro-Ade Coker spin that is already struggling to resonate in the media.
Mr. Manly-Spain, who is riding high on favourable public opinion unseat Joseph Ade Coker in the NDC�s impending regional executives election, has said that the NDC�s resounding victory in the Greater Accra Region, during the 2012 elections, was a plaudit more befitting President Mahama than anyone else.
Second to the President, he said, praise was in order for constituency executives in the Greater Accra Region who worked hard to ensure victory, in spite of the fact that they were not motivated to work for the victory of the party.
Mr. Manly-Spain made these observations at a meeting with Constituency Executives in Tema over the weekend.
The Presidents magnetic charisma, affability and general bohemian disposition, he said, was the main magic wand that plunked Greater Accra for the NDC like a low hanging fruit.
But then the marketing of those winsome qualities of the President, he noted, was done by the party's constituency executives who he said did so, in spite of little motivation from the regions top officers headed by Ade Coker.
At the meeting, Henry Manly-Spain did not attack anybody, but any political watcher worth his salt understands that the praise for President Mahama and the constituency executives was a denunciation of Ade-Coker�s claim to relevance in the NDC.
Joseph Ade-Coker, the NDC�s incumbent Greater Accra Regional Chairman, is on a one-way street out of office, per prevailing public opinion and NDC delegates sentiment.
Even though he was the Greater Accra Chairman of the party in 2012 when the party won the region convincingly, he has recently come under accusation of greed and money-lust.
The Enquirer cannot independently verify, but it is widely believe that the recent embarrassing rejection of the Presidents nominees for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives across the region was mainly his doing.
Party insiders accuses him of taking money from people not so beloved by the party�s members at the grassroots level in exchange for lobbying Flagstaff House to appoint them as the Chief Executives.
Unfortunately, because most of the people Ade-Coker pushed to make Chief Executives were not favoured by the members at the Assembly level, who were supposed to approve their nominations with votes, most of Flagstaff House nominees were shooed away by the assemblies.
The rejections became massive embarrassment to the President and gingered delegates to remove Ade Coker from office in the party�s impending election for executives.
But Mr. Coker would not go down without a fight.
Recently, stories floated in the media extolling the Greater Accra NDC Chairman as a champion who had won Greater Accra convincing for the NDC in 2012.
It is this claim to relevance by Ade Coker and his charges in the media that has come under serious attack by Mr, Manly-Spain.
Speaking to the Constituency Executives in Tema, Manly-Spain said the massive victory that the NDC won in Greater Accra in 2012 was resultant of President Mahama�s charisma plus the fierce loyalty of the party�s Constituency Executives in the Region and not any fine political strategies by anybody.
As a fine communicator, Mr. Manly-Spain said, the President won the heart of Greater Accra with his gentlemanly disposition, even though his opponents were chanting �All-die-be-die.�
He commended the constituency executives for holding up the President winsome character well, in spite of the fact that they were not motivated to work under the leadership of Ade Coker.
Manly-Spain pledged to bring aplenty motivated on board if he is given the mandate to be the party�s Greater Accra Regional chairman, saying that his brand of leadership would aim at letting the constituency executives sacrifice in happiness for the victory of the party in 2016.
In response, Hon. Alex Akutekye, a Government appointee at the Tema Metropolitan Assembly and Executive Member of Tema West NDC, praised the clear articulation of Mr. Manly-Spain,s saying he had spoken well.
Some constituency chairman, secretaries and organizers at the meeting vowed to use every necessary degree of firmness to make sure Ade-Coker is replaced by the end of the NDC�s impending election of national delegates.
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