Watch Out NDC

As the most popular political party, the ruling National Democratic Congress

(NDC) goes to congress on Saturday 9, 2011 to elect a flag bearer to lead the

party into the 2012 national elections. It is an undeniable fact that, 1st in

the history of Ghana’s politics / democracy, a sitting president is being

contested from among his own party for the slot. I therefore urge former

President Jerry John Rawlings, regardless of everything to exhibit neutrality in

the current division in the party along President John Evans Atta Mills, Nana

Konadu and Ekow Spio Garbrah lines and bring both factions together for a

successful congress on Saturday July 9, 2011. It is just an illusion for some

party members to presume that there are no divisions in the party and if the

current divisions are not dealt with decisively and quickly, the NDC would hand

defeats to it self in the December 2012 presidential elections. The NDC should

by now learn from history and what caused their defeat in the 2000 and 2004

presidential elections. That not withstanding, if they can’t learn from their

own history, they can as well learn from their close political competitors – the

New Patriotic Party (NPP), “the split that occurred in the Danquah – Busua

family along Victor Owusu and Paa Willie line in 1979, which led to the victory

for the People’s National Party (PNP)”. Have the NDC party forgotten so soon

their own slogan “Unity, Stability and Development”? Divisions are not in anyway

healthy for their Socialist Democratic party’s cohesion and unity. I urge all

loyal members and stakeholders of the NDC party to come together and fight the

spirit of factionalism, greed, and attacking of individuals’ personality that

has reared its ugly face in the party, If not, failure will befall the NDC party

in the 2012 presidential elections. Blissful Congress NDC!!!

Clemence Ameevor

P.O.Box TS 519,

Teshie – Accra

clemenceameevor@yahoo.com