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The founder and Leader of Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Madam Akua Donkor, has appealed to delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to retain the current national executive of the party to enable the party to retain power. She explained that if the party, however, failed to re-elect them, the Ghana Freedom Party was ready to welcome Dr Kwabena Adjei and Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the National Chairman and General Secretary respectively of the party, into her party because of their outstanding qualities and power of delivery as astute politicians. Declaration Madam Donkor made the declaration on Wednesday in Accra while delivering a solidarity message in Twi at the launch of the campaign for the re-election of Dr Kwabena Adjei. She was among dignitaries and representatives of organisations invited to deliver solidarity messages at the launch. Madam Donkor extended the invitation to the two after Mr Nketia had mounted the podium to strongly and brilliantly defend the record of Dr Adjei. Mr Nketia said his critics were going around trying to convince the delegates that because Dr Adjei was a soft leader, the General Secretary wielded so much power in the NDC and that they should not vote for him and Dr Adjei. Collective decision He explained that these were palpable lies because the national executive members constantly consulted one another before he could come out to announce the collective decisions of the executive. He said that explained why there hardly arose an occasion when after he had announced the party�s decisions nobody came out with a contrary view as it had been happening in the opposition parties where the executive members contradicted each other on the airwaves. Explaining further the role of the national chairman, Mr Nketia said as the head, he maintained a delicate relationship between the party and the presidency. He said what Dr Adjei had done was to wield his authority carefully to ensure that the party�s national executive and the presidency, as well as the rank and file, moved in the same direction with unity of purpose. He, therefore, urged the delegates to judge them according to the prevailing peace among the presidency, ministers and the party. �If the party executive and the presidency operate on divergent frequencies which result in discords and disagreements, the electorate would discern that the party is not fit to rule since they could not practise internal democracy,�� the General Secretary declared. Mr Nketiah said, however, that the NDC believed in internal democracy and the rule of law and would do what was possible within its means to ensure that the party executive maintained a harmonious relationship with the presidency and the ministers, the parliamentary caucus and the �foot soldiers.��