A founder member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Peter Osei Asiedu, has called for total re-organisation of the party from the branches up to the national level.
Mr Asiedu, a Tema-based businessman, said the party did not need a leadership contest and called on respected elders of the party, such as the founder, to call to order all those who were wasting time to get the National Executive Committee to endorse a candidate for 2020.
In a press statement titled: ‘The future of the NDC’, Mr Asiedu opined that those moves would break the party beyond repairs.
It called on the Council of Elders to set up a national re-organisation committee for the party, which should focus on reshaping its platform to emphasise the needs of working people and the marginalised and on rebuilding structures from the ground.
It said the NDC was founded to protect the real social gains of the 31st December Revolution and pursue even greater social gains possible in a peaceful, participatory and democratic political system.
According to the statement, the party promised Ghanaians that it would stay engaged with and be accountable to them through its active branch network and popular organisations and not just hold rallies “for our big men and women to speak to us every four years when they need our votes”.
“Today, we have leaders who do not share or even understand our founding vision. We have a government that is more committed to foreign investors and Western donors than Ghanaian working people.
“Our government appears arrogant, bloated, corrupt, dishonest and incompetent. Our leaders have rejected organisational and democratic accountability. They have killed the party branches and not maintained relationship with mass organisations.
“They think it is enough to run around the country every four years in their motorcades telling stories about their supposed achievements. We lost the December 7 election because our own supporters were so disappointed with their leaders that they could not bring themselves to vote for them.
“If there is no real and visible change in direction, the NDC will continue to lose election after election until it dies,” it concluded.
It would be recalled that the Crusade for Probity and Accountability (CPA), a think tank within the NDC, has called on the national executive of the party to step aside in order to make way for a neutral body to investigate the causes of the abysmal performance of the party at the just-ended polls.
The group observed that the rank and file of the party had lost trust in the executive for presiding over an election which the party lost by an unprecedented margin in the country’s history.
At its inaugural press conference held in Accra last Wednesday, the Convener of the CPA, Dr Kwesi Djokoto, called for steps to be taken to restructure the party at all levels, in line with the principles of probity, accountability and social justice that served as its foundation stone.
Source: Daily Graphic
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A plus accused your national organiser and campaign coordinator of building houses all over Accra. What his response? . "If A plus stops taking drugs he can also do the same"
No way for Jerry Rawlings in NDC again he is a traiter and a sell out and has always been.
Hypocrite all of you knew that the nation was suffering from ndc full of corruption, lying, ***barred word*** etc but you were all sing praises that the nation was in good condition during the campaign time now that you lost you are saying this ok you aren't coming back again you better let enjoy our peace
The true fact is obvious that prez mahama engaged himself with corruption and you big wigs were quiet because of your share and now we lost the election we should forget about 2020 and think far and learn from our opponent so next time we come to power we have to do what the people want long live ghana long live ndc.
You are dead already, ask my wife, this has been my prayers, that ndc will be sent to oblivion and never to resurface again. I will rather root for PPP OR CPP to come as the second force to NPP. But for ndc, every true Ghanaian's wish is that it will die forever. If elections are conducted in an open level grounds, I unequivocally say that ndc will not win an election in this country. You have been rigging all along. Now it will be difficult for you to rig any elections in Ghana, hence you are dead.
ndc is dead. we will recall the good old days of pndc and ndc when things were being done to lift ghana high but in the end the soldiers from the barracks came to throw we the students at that time out from the political scene from our grassroots and there were no choices for us than to leave and now we find the ndc collapsing on the head of kojo tsikata, tsatsu tsikata and rawlings himself.
Ndc are power drunk,they don't actually think of the country but their disgraceful and shameful party. All ndc think is to win election and stay in power,else why this rush when the new government and the president elect haven't been sworn in? Instead of them taking their time to sit down and bisect the elections to know what went wrong they talking of 2020 elections. When we tell Ghanaians these people are idi*ts who shouldn't be in power,some still vote for them. The true reflections of Ghanaian election is what we saw on the Dec.7th. How come anytime ndc is announced the winner of any election in Ghana the whole country becomes quiet except some few pockets of areas who even don't come out to jubilate ,but when NPP wins elections the whole country rejoice on the streets and homes,restaurants and drinking spots,you can see the happiness of the people which means the Ghanaian people do not vote for the ndc to win but they ndc rig elections with the connivance of the EC.
Restructuring of your rigging machine not your supporters becos this 2016 elections results is the true will of the ghanaian people from way back 1992 u guys ve never won a genuine elections b4. thx to Nana Addo for going to court in 2012 to shine our eyes.your rigging machine has been exposed.
who cares bring him and he wl looooose potoooooo