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A former National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Yaw Boateng Gyan, has said that they will whole heartedly throw their support behind former president John Dramani Mahama if he is able to win the flagbearership slot of the party for the 2024 general elections.

But he should not be allowed to go unopposed.

He says he could not fathom why some people within the party easily get agitated once they hear that the former President should allow others to go into a contest with him for the right of who becomes the party's flagbearer.

Speaking on Okay FM's 'Ade Akye Abia' programme, Yaw Boateng Gyan intimated that the opposition party has  come a long way to be bothered by the actions of such undemocratic elements.

"The NDC I know is a huge political party touted with great democratic credentials than any other I know so why do we have to let some of these things try to create unnecessary tension in the party.

"We have some national executives who are supposed to be referees openly trying to endorse JDM as the candidate for the 2024 elections so why do you have to pick flimsy and frivolous squabbles with us if we also openly declare support for somebody who has also expressed interest to lead the party for the 2024 elections?

"Even the late John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills was contested by the founder's wife, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings," he added.

He maintained that the former President will enjoy the support of every body including those who run against him should he win a free and fair primary for the flagbeareship position of the party.

" . . those who have made it a habit to attack others whenever talk of JDM must not go unopposed is raised, should desist from such behaviour as it may attract same and equally measured response . . . this won't augur well for the party in the 2024 elections," he counseled.

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NDC can’t win 2024 with Mahama as candidate – EIU report

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), says the National Democratic Congress (NDC) cannot win the 2024 general elections with former president Mahama as presidential candidate.

This was revealed in the EIU’s five-year forecast for Ghana released on April 13, 2022.

According to the report the NDC can revitalize this prospect of victory if they present a fresh presidential candidate for the 2024 polls.

The latest EIU five-year forecast for Ghana, which was released on April 13, 2022, indicated that “under constitutionally mandated term limits, the incumbent President, Mr. Akufo-Addo, cannot run for a third term.”

The EIU said its baseline forecast is anchored on the “ongoing public dissatisfaction with the slow pace of improvements in governance – such as infrastructure development, job creation and easing of corruption – will trigger anti-incumbency factors and push the electorate to seek a change.”

The report pointed out, however, that Ghanaians do not believe Mr. Mahama, who is considering to run again, represents the change they are looking for, and called on the “NDC to try to revitalise its prospects with a fresh candidate.”

The EIU’s proposal for the NDC to change its presidential candidate to guarantee wide support for the party, has beset the opposition party, whose national executives thought they had overcome their political crisis after the Supreme Court debacle over the election petition.