In what can be described as perhaps an official admittance that all is indeed not well in the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the party’s National Propaganda Secretary, Richard Quashigah has shockingly disclosed that there are some elements within the ruling NDC who are bent on doing their utmost to push the party to the brink of collapse.
According to him, it is not everybody in the NDC who wishes well for the party.
Richard Quashigah, who made the disconcerting revelations on e-TV Ghana’s Newspaper Review programme, also stated that there are certain NDC activists who prefer that constant divisions within the rank and file of the party reigns supreme.
“We know that there are some people in the NDC who will want to do all they can to push the NDC to the brisk of collapse… as much as every person in the NDC is relevant and important, the bad nuts cannot be erased,” he said.
To him, since politics is about numbers, one cannot downplay the relevance of these individuals in the party by trying to kick them out, and admonished that any attempt to do so will lead to the NDC losing the services and contributions of that individual, together with his family and perhaps friends.
“Every person in the NDC is relevant, every member of the NDC is as important as every member of the NPP is important to the NPP. Politics is about numbers so you cannot say that you want to downplay some individuals in the party. If you do that, you will basically lose them and when you lose one; you will not lose him alone but probably his family and friends, so every individual in a political party is important,” he noted.
But a member of the NPP’s Communication Team for Election 2012, John Boadu, sharply disagreed. According to him, there are some people who do not bring anything worthwhile on board a political party’s bandwagon.
The former NPP National Youth Organiser pointed out that political parties need to understand that sometimes one plus one does not always equal two because some could be negative one (-1), adding that “though politics is a game of numbers, some (people) add negative numbers and others add to it positively”.
