NDC to Ostracize Delegates who Vote for Nana Konadu

A NDC youth activist and a strong supporter of former First Lady Nana Konadu

Agyeman Rawlings is warning of a breakup within the NDC if President John

Mills is elected as the flagbearer of the party at the July 8 congress.

Ernest Brogya Gyamfi who until recently was the deputy Public Relations

Officer at the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council, revealed to Xfm 95.1

that the Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Osei Assibey Antwi and other

government functionaries have been warning delegates in the Ashanti region

that anybody who votes against President Mills will never be happy in the

party ³as long as Prof Mills remains the President². He said Mr Osei Assibey

Antwi in the company of Education Minister, Betty Mould Iddrisu, Deputy

Trade Minister, Mahama Ayariga and a member of the National Executive

Council, Alhaji Sherrif told the delegates that voting was going to be done

on regional basis ³and they will count and know which region voted for or

against Prof Mills and that will indicate whether you are going to be happy

in the party or not². Sounding the alarm bells, Brogya Gyamfi opined that

the NDC ³will be disintegrated² if President Mills is given a second term,

adding that ³the party will never be united going into the 2012 elections².

Shifting his attention to the termination of his appointment as the deputy

Public Relations Officer at the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council,

Brogya Gyamfi contented that his relationship with the former First Lady was

what had caused him his job. He however said he was unperturbed and will

continue to call for a change of leadership within the NDC. ³It is a known

fact that I believe in Nana Konadu and it is possible that that has caused

my job. I have decided not o talk too much about the intimidationsŠ Even

when we were in opposition, I stood by Professor Mills and the NDC because I

believed that was the best for Ghana. If today, Prof Mills has not been able

to manage the political party that took him into office very well, and the

grassroots base of the party are calling for a change which is what is going

to happen in Sunyani, and I believe in that and I stand by that particular

conviction. If that will cause my head, there is no problem at all with

that².