NDP disqualification means nothing to NDC - Quarshigah

The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said the disqualification of the National Democratic Party (NDP) from the 2012 general elections means very little to the party.

The party, however, stated that it had wished the breakaway party had stayed in the race.

The NDP as well as some other parties on Thursday failed to qualify for the December Presidential and Parliamentary elections due to errors on their nominations forms.

Richard Quarshigah Propaganda Secretary of the NDC said told an Accra based radio station; NDC never saw the NDP as a threat.

“It doesn’t mean anything to us, I mean it has not resulted in anything whatsoever with the reason being that we did not consider them as a threat in anyway. It would not have made any difference if the NDP contested and we would have loved the NDP to be in the race” he said.

He added; “I would have wished that all the political parties and independent aspirants who wanted to be part of the process to have gone through the process. After all, is that not part of the deepening of our democracy. It has not changed our views in any way because we know we are winning the elections”.

Meanwhile, the former Secretary General of the NDP, Dr. Mamboa Rockson who resigned his position two days to the party’s maiden congress has indicated that he is excited the NDP failed to make it.

“I am excited and also exonerated because I just want the NDP now to appreciate knowledge in the sense that one has gone to school and really knows how to put together a party and to receive the final certificate within three months and that was incredible for somebody like me,” he said.

Dr. Rockson continued that “I am very happy, excited and exonerated and if Mrs. Rawlings had listen to my advice, she would have been very happy today.”