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A Former General Secretary of the biggest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alhaji Hudu Yahaya, has stressed the need for the party to harmonise its interests to guarantee total victory in the 2020 general election.

According to the veteran politician, who is staking a claim to the national chairman position of the party, unity is sine qua non to the NDC winning
political power in 2020.

“If our differences are not about the control of resources, then any difference is not fundamental and we should be able to mend it for unity to prevail,”

Alhaji Yahaya, who has over three decades experience in politics, told the Daily Graphic in an exclusive interview in Accra Wednesday.

He said a house that was divided could not stand which was why throughout his political life, he had believed in the principle of unity, never been divisive nor tolerated divisiveness.

He, therefore, enjoined the rank and file of the NDC to continue to work hard towards unity, since that was the surest way to guarantee victory in the 2020 polls.

“Without unity we cannot achieve our end,” Alhaji Yahaya cautioned.

Step aside

Alhaji Yahaya, who was in the National Chairmanship race for the NDC in 2014 but had to step aside at the very last hour, promised that “this time
round, I am putting myself forward for the National Chairmanship of the party. The times are very different and we are not in government; we are in
opposition.”

On why he had to step aside as a national chairman aspirant of the NDC in 2014 at the very last hour, Alhaji Yahaya explained, “The
leadership of the party considered that I should step down in the supreme interest of the party. This, I obliged respectfully because party
comes first before self.”

There was no point being in politics if we were not working for the ordinary man, he reasoned.