Spio, Alabi dump Mahama unity walk

Some leading members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who have shown interest in contesting for the party’s flagbearership, turned their backs on the ‘unity walk’ initiated to ‘unite’ the party ahead of the 2020 polls.

They and the founder of the party, former President Jerry John Rawlings, were absent from the unity walk at Tarkwa on Saturday.

The party stalwarts, including former majority leader and current 2nd deputy speaker of parliament, Alban Bagbin; former Minister of Trade and Industry, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah and former National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) chief executive officer (CEO), Sylvester Mensah, as well as the immediate past Rector of the University of Professional Studies Accra (UPSA), Joshua Alabi, stayed away.

Their absence left the walk to earn a sobriquet ‘Mahama Unity Walk’ because it was only former President John Mahama and his supporters who undertook the exercise.

Not even former Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur was present.