A 44-year-old businessman, Mr Ishaq Abdullah Farrakhan, has declared his intention to challenge Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), in the forthcoming national executive elections of the party.
He said Mr Asiedu Nketiah should not delude himself into thinking that he was the only person who could be the general secretary of the party.
The NDC, he said, was full of equally hard-working, intelligent and versatile individuals who could even steer the affairs of the party better than Mr Asiedu-Nketiah, who believes that he is the only person who could handle the party�s chief scribe position.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic in Kumasi , Mr Farrakhan said he took the decision after consulting a large section of the party members from the national level to almost all the constituencies across the country.
Mr Farrakhan, who had served as a branch executive of the Obuasi Constituency for 12 years and as a TEIN Extra Executive Member at the University of Ghana, Legon, for 2012/2013, indicated that the party had been centred in Accra for far too long.
He said apart from putting in place measures at ensuring that the party increased its votes in the Ashanti Region, among other areas, he was bent on securing a resounding victory that would cripple the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to the extent that they would not even have the opportunity to waste the nation�s time at the law court.
�My reason is that Mr Asiedu Nketiah said at the launch of Dr Kwabena Adjei�s re-election bid that the NDC is not for sale. Therefore, I want him to know that the NDC is bigger than him and his family,�� he said
He said he could not wait to consult his (Farrakhan�s family before accepting the outcome of what his (Asiedu Nketiah) family would tell him, whether to accept to continue his job or not.
Mr Farrakhan said he wanted the whole world to know that he (Farrakhan) was contesting Mr Asiedu Nketiah and that he had not come out because the party had not opened nominations.
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