By Adovor Nutifafa, Akatsi
Apathy and discontent is creeping into the grassroots caucus of the ruling National Democratic Congress party and if sustainable, politically savvy solution is not put in place to assuage the hurt and pain of this strategic base of the party, it may scuttle the second term bid of the sitting President, His Excellency John Evans Atta Mills.
Ms. Agatha Ahiandzi, the current market queen at the Akatsi central market and the then NDC’s Women Organizer when candidate Atta Mills won the crunch 2008 presidential election on the ticket of the NDC said she and other ardent faithful of the party lost their loved ones in the course of the campaign for the 2008 elections but have been totally neglected by the Party when victory was won.
She told The Citizen at Akatsi that, she and other traders who are sympathizers of the NDC are dissatisfied that when the Party assumed control of the political administration of the country, it has not put in place pro-poor and social safety policies to cater for loyalist of the Party who suffered various degrees of brutalities and death en route to the capturing of political power.
When her attention was drawn to the “The NDC Heroes Fund” which was set up by her party to cater for people of her kind, she said much noise was made about the Fund but in terms of its implementation lackluster and shambolic.
A cross-section who also spoke this paper says the culture of elitism, which is alien to the ideology and rank and file of the party, is the order of the day. They say people they have elected and know in Government refused to pick their numerous calls and reply text messages when they want to convey their grievances.
According to them, others member of the party after they had received juicy appointments with it associated mouthwatering purse and privilege have changed the number they used to use when they were together in the trenches and in the battle front fighting for the course of the NDC because they do not disturbed.
They say they of firm believe that now that political temperature has been heighten as a result of the electing of the party’s parliamentary candidates for the forthcoming 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections these members of the party who alienated and neglected them when they got appointment will coming running after them for their votes.
When they were asked whether they will still vote the NDC in the 2012 polls they told this reporter that there are waiting patiently with bated breath to take a decisive with reaching implications for the fortunes of the party come 2012.
Source: The Citizen Newspaper (thecitizen.news@yahoo.com)
