Members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) who wish to register with the party at the various branch levels are expected to pay GH¢1 before they are issued with the party’s identification (ID) card, as part of its re-organization exercise.
This was revealed by former President John Dramani Mahama when he was addressing hundreds of NDC supporters at Tarkwa in the Western Region at the end of a ‘unity walk’ organized by the party last Saturday.
“We are about to start branch registration exercise. Just submit two passport-size pictures and an ID card to enable you register. Then you will pay a registration fee of GH¢1 before you will be given your party ID card,” he announced.
It would be recalled that the Prof. Kwesi Botchwey post-election review committee had recommended the scrapping of the NDC’s biometric register, which was compiled prior to the 2016 general election, because of its fraudulent nature.
The NDC later admitted that its biometric register – which it spent millions of Ghana cedis to compile – lacked integrity and credibility and therefore could not be relied upon for any meaningful internal elections.
The leadership of the party therefore decided to throw away the register and start a new process of registering the members manually.
Former President Mahama told the NDC supporters that the biometric register was one of the causes of the party’s defeat in the 2016 elections as it was not credible, asserting that some members of the ‘elephant party’ [referring to the then opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP)] managed to get their names on the NDC register.
“We will put the register we used in 2016 away and create a new one. We are compiling all the names at the branch levels so no one should go to the regional or national headquarters for registration.
“After that we will have what we call register auditing at all the branches to make sure that those who registered are truly members of the NDC,” he added.
Mr Mahama indicated that after the registration, there would be election of nine-member branch executives after which the party would elect its constituency executives.
He added that in mid next year the party would elect its national executives and then proceed to vote for its presidential candidate in November, 2018.
Source: Daily Guide
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small ndc register you were not able to manage it..... we will infiltrate your camp and register but will not vote the corrupt ndc.... we will only chop the stolen money that you guys are keeping under your beds.
Mahama got his presidency by chance. When it was actually to be decided by Ghanaians we rejected him. NDC is not seeing through this and they want to push him there again. After 2020, you should not blame any grass root members but our actions. We are seeing on the wall but the adamant people in NDC have close their very good eyes. Thre will be no Kwesi Botchway committee again.
Certain information should be assign to the Party Chairman or the General Secretary. It appears Mahama is doing all this by himself to keep himself as frontrunner for the flag bearer of NDC your intensions are clear on the wall. And he keeps on saying I have not decided yet.
Eii, very very cheap. Then I will go and register even though I am NOT and will NEVER be part of NDC.
A BUNCH OF ***barred word***'S GATHERING.