Choose a winnable candidate for election 2024 – Asah Asante tells NDC

A senior lecturer at the University Ghana Political Science Department, Dr. Kwame Asah Asante has urged the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) delegates to select a winnable candidate to represent the party in the 2024 general elections.

The NDC on February 21, 2023 announced the opening of nominations for the election of its Presidential candidate and Parliamentary Candidates for the 2024 General Elections.

Former President John Mahama, former Finance Minister, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor and others have picked up their forms to contest for the flag bearers position.

Speaking on the Morning Starr with Francis Abban Thursday Mr. Asante advised that the delegates of the NDC to vote for the best candidate who can win power for the party.

“Get a winnable candidate, a candidate who will endure or who has endeared the hearts to many in this country. A candidate who is known who is popular, who has a track record.

"Because take it or leave it you cannot win any election in this country without any political record that you are going to stand on. You need a candidate who has that, a candidate whose messages will resonate with most of the people in this country.

“A candidate who knows the problems of this country and has the magic hand to turn things around. If you put all these things together you will realize that you need a serious candidate who has all these qualifications to stand for the election.

"Let us remember that we can have somebody who is fresh come in and can go and not like Mr. Mahama who the constitution will allow him to go only one term. You can have somebody who if he performs well can go for two terms,” Mr. Asante stated.

He continued: “But remember that you and I don’t control our life, what about the person who can’t do it and we remove that person. Are you talking about the second term, second term is not given, we notice that we don’t know what will happen tomorrow.

Let’s work for today and be guided by what will happen tomorrow. The party, from a strategic political perspective, I want to believe that they want to work on the first term, the send term is a secondary matter.”