We were chased with cutlass- Obed

The former National Chairman Congress (NDC), Dr Obed Yao Asamoah, has stated that during his days in NDC, whenever a party adherent hazarded a useful suggestion for the advancement of the party, he was either chased out with cutlasses or branded a traitor.

Addressing a crowd at Afuaman, a farming community near Accra, Dr Asamoah said this constituted one of the reasons why he broke away from the NDC.

At a durbar of the people of the community last Friday, he said the personal attacks he received any time he made suggestions, made him lose confidence in the party.

According to him, in 200, when the NDC lost power to the New Patriotic Party, some of them suggested that a plan be fashioned, since the choices they were adopting could not bring the party back to power, but they were rather chased out with cutlasses and guns.

This, he said made him feel insecure in the party, hence his decision to leave, adding that, it could be for the same reason that some of his comrades joined him to form this new party.

He noted that it was unfair in this democratic era for a political party to throw out some of its members, because they had different views, indicating that NDC as party, lacked vital freedom.

He therefore, stated there was the need for people to entertain others’ ideas because ‘some may bring an idea which you as an individual had not thought of, and it could help save the problem of the day’.