We need everyone in the campaign- SoDA

The Central Committee of the Social Democratic Alliance (SoDA), a political pressure group of second generation political activists, on Wednesday reiterated that the old group of activists, the leadership of the ruling NDC and the youth activists are needed on board to get the party re-elected in the December 2012 elections.

Former President Jerry Rawlings, all the various organs of the party, as well as the old and young cadre corps are needed in the campaign to retain the NDC in power, Mr. Lord Koranteng Hammah, General Secretary of SoDA said.

“We need everyone in the campaign,” Mr. Hammah emphasised.

Addressing a press conference in Accra, Mr. Hammah said former President Rawlings and all who were interested in the survival of the NDC would have to get involved in the campaign to get the NDC re-lected in the December polls.

Mr. Hammah accused the minority New Patriotic Party of initiating a class war against the working people of Ghana, threats of war and ethnocentrism; with serious economic consequences and loss of investor confidence in Ghana economy.

SoDA stated unequivocally that the consolidation of the Mills regime and its r-election was "the most urgent task for all forces on the side of national cohesion and progress.”

The group, however said, bureaucratic action coupled with an absence of broad and active political participation of the people of Ghana was weakening the vibrancy of the party, warning that the NDC stood the prospect of losing the 2012 election if the current situation persisted.

“Monopoly of political participation has to be purposely broken if there should be any rational expectation of victory,” Mr. Hammah said.

SoDA called on President Mills to take measures to halt what it called “the politics of exclusion“, by opening up and involving all progressive youth organisations and cadres in a broad activist campaign, to ensure complete and total victory of the NDC in December 2012.**