NDC should provide credible leadership

Ashaiman (Greater Accra) -- The Ashaiman Constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Wednesday cautioned the flagbearer of the party, Professor John Evans Atta Mills, to avoid giving promises that could create problems when NDC wins power in 2004.

"This is because Ghanaians have grown past the period when big talks by politicians at rallies did the trick for them to win votes to come to political power, only to disappoint them later because they could not deliver on their promises."

Alhaji Issifu Akakade, Ashaiman Constituency Chairman of the NDC, who was speaking at a get together to congratulate the delegates who attended the NDC congress for helping to choose the flagbearer and to plan the way forward said, NPP gestures on promises during the 2000 elections campaign should be a guide to NDC about vain promises, adding that they do not help in the present day political dispensation.

He congratulated Dr Kwesi Botchwey for showing maturity when he accepted defeat, and said this is the time his promise to team up with the flagbearer for the NDC to win a resounding victory in 2004 elections would be put to test.

Alhaji Akakade called on the members of the executive to go all out to continue the mobilisation of members for the party so that it can take back the constituency, which he said, was loaned to NPP by default.

"The present government misrule has brought a lot of hardships to the people, because apart from their failure to fulfil their numerous campaign promises and their indulgence of selective justice, Ghanaians have realised that the forward match for the country is bleak, therefore, there should be a change after 2004,instead of continuity which was once NDC slogan," he said.

Alhaji Akakade stressed that Ghanaians are yearning for NDC to come back to provide credible leadership, and since the constituency delegates joined others to select an acceptable one that enjoys the confidence of the party, adding "we need to assist him by working hard for him to win the next elections, to transform Ghana." He said the party would start its campaign by launching the new NDC membership card and appealed to the members to make the exercise a success.