What could make the NDC collapse before 2028 general election - Mustapha Gbande shares

The Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mustapha Gbande, has identified what he believes could potentially lead to the collapse of the party ahead of the 2028 general election.

Speaking to media personality Roselyn Feli, Mustapha Gbande stated that allowing an open internal election to select the party’s presidential candidate for the 2028 election could potentially create divisions within the NDC and eventually lead to its collapse.

“I am against voting in the next election. Choosing of presidency. I’ll tell you, if the NDC jokes and allows us to open for freeway election like the NPP does, by the time we come back our party will collapse. Take it from me. I’m talking out of what I know,” he said.

According to the Deputy General Secretary, the NDC should rather consider allowing its Council of Elders to select a candidate and honour the person they believe deserves the opportunity to lead the party into the 2028 general election.

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“I’m cautioning and pleading with our people that at certain times, it is not about rights, it’s about wisdom, and that everybody’s time will come…I’m saying that NDC must be an organisation whose story is that we honour the ones that deserve to be honoured. And so when it is your time, it should be your time,” he stated.

Citing an example, Mustapha Gbande said such honouring should be done in a manner similar to how Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang rose through the ranks to become a minister and later the country’s first female vice president.

“Look, Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyeman, before 2012, she was an IEA moderator. He said it on air that I am not a member of the NDC. Fast forward, as destiny has it, she became a minister of education, performed very well. She became a first female vice president. That is honouring her,” he stated.

When asked whether he aspired to become president one day, Mustapha Gbande said he did not aspire to the position, arguing that if he became president, he would not tolerate certain practices within government.

“If I become a president, it will be a very difficult thing, because a lot of the things that I see, I won’t allow it, and it will be like every minister will go for six-month military training. Every DCE will be trained. You see, when you have security training, your brain functionality is very hard, and it tames and filters you from very lazy attitude and lazy thinking,” he said.

He further stated: “And that is one of the things affecting us as a country. And so if I become president, you don’t have a room to place yourself first. You can’t. So I don’t aspire to be a president.”



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