2024 Elections: Meet the three former NDC executives now opposing Mahama’s presidential bid

Ahead of the 2024 elections, some former top executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have declared support for the flagbearer of their rival party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Others have also been astute critics of the NDC flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, speaking against his bid to secure power in the 2024 general elections.

Three of these executives, some of whom have been sacked from the party, have turned against the NDC’s agenda for winning the upcoming 2024 elections.

Among these former top-notch executives are:

1. Allotey Jacobs

Former Central Regional Chairman of the NDC, Bernard Allotey Jacobs, has announced his retirement from active politics after the 2024 general elections.

According to him, he is only waiting to cast his vote for the presidential candidate of the ruling NPP, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, on December 7 before retiring from active politics.

“For me, I am going on retirement. Getting to the elections, I will go on retirement; I will no longer engage in politics,” he disclosed during the Thursday, June 20, 2024, edition of Peace FM’s Kokrokoo morning show.

“Before the elections; after voting, I have retired. Once I give this my thumb to Dr. Bawumia, I am done. I am going home on retirement, be it speaking on the radio or whatever,” he added.

He has on various occasions openly endorsed Dr. Bawumia as the next president of Ghana.

He previously stated that the NDC has nothing to offer Ghanaians and that God should not let them come to power again. He said former President John Dramani Mahama and the NDC are part of Ghana’s failure to contain illegal mining.

Bernard Allotey Jacobs is predicting a landslide victory for the NPP in the December polls.

According to him, the partnership between NPP flagbearer Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and his running mate Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh (NAPO) is “God-ordained.”

Jacob is certain the NPP will win the December 7 presidential election by 50.6%.

2. Koku Anyidoho

Former General Secretary of the NDC, Koku Anyidoho, has been an astute critic of the NDC flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama.

Anyidoho has stated countless times that it would be a curse on Ghana for former President John Dramani Mahama to hold the Sword of State for the third time because Mahama's motive for seeking to return to the presidency is "greed."

Anyidoho, who was expelled from the NDC over misconduct, pointed out that John Mahama had already held the State Sword twice before, on July 24, 2012, and January 7, 2013.

He urged Ghanaians to be cautious and not allow Mahama to curse the country with his greedy agenda.

“If John Mahama holds the Sword of State for the third time, it shall be a curse on Ghana. He held the Sword of State on July 24, 2012, and January 7, 2013. Let’s not allow John Mahama to curse Ghana with his greedy agenda,” Koku said in one of his Twitter posts.

Anyidoho says he is waiting for the former president to personally refuse the debate, and he will lead a "no debate, no presidency" demonstration against Mahama.

3. Stephen Ashitey Adjei

A former executive of the Tema East Constituency branch of the NDC, Stephen Ashitey Adjei, has said that his party’s presidential candidate for the 2024 elections is not fit for purpose.

In a write-up on happenings within the party, Ashitey Adjei, popularly called Moshake, said the former president, John Dramani Mahama, has lost too much goodwill among Ghanaians to convince anybody that he can be trusted with the affairs of the state again.

“This phenomenon is what has led to Mr. Kofi Bentil, a Vice President of the think-tank IMANI Africa, to choose Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia over John Mahama even though when Mahama was president, he was very kind towards IMANI,” he wrote.

According to Moshake, “Kofi Bentil’s view is shared by many in the civil society community of the country.”

Continuing, Moshake wrote that John Mahama himself has been proving that he is not in good shape to govern the country again.

“It is all in the amorphous nature of his campaign promise so far the 24-hour economy promise I knew that it was only a matter of time before it would lose steam and immediately Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia made known his mission statement, the 24-hour policy started looking bogus,” he added.

According to Moshake, “the nebulous nature of the promise also shows that Mahama has lost ideas.”

Expressing his frustration, Moshake wrote that he had warned the NDC not to elect John Mahama as its presidential candidate because he carried too much negative baggage, but the party wouldn’t listen.

“This election was supposed to be our best chance to return to power after John Mahama’s failings in office as president plunged us into opposition, but now things are looking down for us because Mr. Mahama’s 24-hour economy promise is just not selling. Most Ghanaians are seeing that he has lost ideas and can therefore not be taken seriously,” Moshake added.

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Apart from the lack of worthwhile campaign promises, Moshake said John Mahama’s battered image as a corrupt and incompetent man does not help matters.

“It has been eight years since John Mahama left office and up till now, he is remembered as a very corrupt man.

“How do you convince people that he can be trusted to govern this country again? Mahama cannot lead Ghana again. In the 2024 campaign, all that the NPP has to do is to return to the scandals of ex-president Mahama’s government again and then that is the end of it for the NDC,” Moshake wrote.

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