NDC race: No time for experiments, 2016 demands experience – Adjei

Incumbent Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has told delegates at the party’s ongoing national delegates’ congress that winning the 2016 general elections requires the election of experienced leaders rather than greenhorns as leaders.

“This is not the time for experimentation. This is a time demanding experience,” Dr Adjei told party leaders and supporters at Saturday’s congress in the Ashanti regional capital, Kumasi.

Adjei, who is seeking to retain the position for the third consecutive time is running against former Trades and Industry Minister Dan Abodakpi, Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) Kofi Portuphy and current Vice Chairman and former General Secretary Huudu Yahaya.

Officially opening the congress, Dr Adjei debunked perceptions that he is a weakling whose health is failing and whose power is also being usurped by other executives of the party.

He reiterated his commitment to the party and the country saying: “I stand for the goodness of NDC. I stand for the goodness of mother Ghana. I dedicate myself, the rest of my life to mother Ghana. I’ve seen things before and there’s nothing that will prevent me from dedicating that life to my dear country.”

‘Wayo Wayo’ as Dr Adjei is popularly called, warned delegates not to be swayed by monetary influences in casting their ballot.

“This is a time demanding goodwill. This is a time that we must know that we cannot buy [the] entire Ghanaian electorate. We have to walk. We must not sleep. We have to use our creative intelligence. It is not money, it was Jesus Christ who once said man does not live by bread alone.

The organisational developers say man lives by bread alone when there is no bread,” he told the crowd.

He reminded the delegates about how his two term tenure helped the party secure victory in the last two national elections.