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A Linguistics Professor of the University for Education, Winneba, UEW and former Upper East Regional Minister, Prof Avea Nsoh, has lashed out at the communicators of the governing National Democratic Congress, NDC, for appearing on political talk show programmes on the various FM radio stations ill-prepared.

He says some of them respond to questions haphazardly and are always obsessed with defending the defenceless.

According to him, it is about time the party's communicators admitted the difficulties facing Ghanaians following the economic downturn and apprised them government's plans to tackle the issues in a sustainable manner.

He said it was needless for the communicators to continue to defend the government for the woes of the country and rather articulate its policies that were bent on confronting those challenges.

" When the opposition tells you, there are no jobs for the youth recently, that is the truth. So, as communicators, you ought to agree and tell the public government's plans to address that canker. You don't defend the defenceless.
"Unemployment is everywhere. Even in advanced countries like spain, there is high rate of unemployment", he said.

He, therefore, called on the Communications Director of the NDC to re-examine some of the communicators who represented the party on political talk shows.

He suggested government should be selective in choosing party's sympathisers who could speak to issues to represent the party on radio and other platforms in order to increase its support base.

Prof Avea made this caution during an interaction with Peace news on his assessment of President John Dramani Mahama and his NDC-led administration.

Although he touted the government's track record in infrastructure development, including roads construction, elevation of many hospitals into ultra-modern hospitals, construction of Senior High Schools and tertiary institutions, among others, he highlighted a myriad of challenges facing the country under the Mahama's government.

He mentioned some as youth unemployment, energy crisis, among others, but was quick to note the president had so far demonstrated he had the political will and leadership to reduce those issues if given the nod in the December 7 polls.

He said the upcoming elections were going to be tightly contested and urged all party's supporters to close their ranks and work concertedly to rebrand to be attractive to the broad spectrum of the Ghanaian voter come December 7.

The academia and development worker who suffered a mysterious defeat in the November NDC parliamentary primary in the Bongo Constituency said he was still committed to the cause of the party, but doubted whether he would engage in active campaign, especially at the constituency level following his busy schedules.

"I'm always in active politics. Since 1992, I have been the core and instrumental player in the party's victory. I think politics is about team work, so I will work with the team to enable NDC retain power. I may not be on campaign rallies all the time because I'm also into development work, hence I will need enough time to make my NGO, TEERE realise its objectives", he added.

Prof Avea reminded leadership of the NDC to work hard in repairing the cracks that occurred in some constituencies during the November 2015 parliamentary primaries since that could be inimical to the electoral fortunes of the party in the upcoming presidential and parliamentary race.

He said the differences in the party in some constituencies were soaring and feared the party could lose many seats if the impasse was not immediately resolved.