Infighting can send NDC back to opposition - Adu-Yeboah

Winneba, May 18, GNA - The Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Samuel Kweku Adu-Yeboah, has said infighting and internal wrangles among members could do more harm than good to the party in the 2012 election.

He said the members should not expect that the NDC would retain power in 2012 on a silver platter and urged them to stop that habit immediately and work hard for the party to maintain power. Mr Adu-Yeboah said this at a day's orientation for NDC MPs, District, Municipal and Metropolitan Chief Executives and constituency officers in the Central Region in Winneba on Monday. The theme for orientation, which was under theme "inter-party cohesion- resolving our differences for a Better Ghana" was also aimed at helping party functionaries in the region to take stock of the past activities and plan for the coming years.

He said the performance of NDC in the Central Region in 2008 needed to be improved upon, hence the workshop to orientate the members on the need to foster unity in order to win more votes. Mr Adu-Yeboah appealed to the members to avoid politics of hatred, demonstrations and press conferences against some top officials of the party.

He called for cooperation and unity among MPs, the Chief Executives and other functionaries for the common good and in the interest of the party, adding without cohesion and understanding NDC can not sustain power. Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, the Eastern Regional Minister, said the party was gradually fulfilling its social commitments to Ghanaians. He said the economic stability and the inflation almost hitting a single digit were ample evidences that the government led by President John Atta Mills was on course.

Mr Ofosu-Ampofo said there were indications that Ghanaian would renew the mandate of NDC and that the government had reduced excessive waste in the financial administration of the country. He urged the youth and other party functionaries to exercise restraint in their demands from government appointees and that the best thing for them to do was to fight and sustain the NDC in power and all their needs could gradually be solved.