A NDC youth activist and a strong supporter of former First Lady Nana Konadu
Agyeman Rawlings is warning of a breakup within the NDC if President John
Mills is elected as the flagbearer of the party at the July 8 congress.
Ernest Brogya Gyamfi who until recently was the deputy Public Relations
Officer at the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council, revealed to Xfm 95.1
that the Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Osei Assibey Antwi and other
government functionaries have been warning delegates in the Ashanti region
that anybody who votes against President Mills will never be happy in the
party ³as long as Prof Mills remains the President². He said Mr Osei Assibey
Antwi in the company of Education Minister, Betty Mould Iddrisu, Deputy
Trade Minister, Mahama Ayariga and a member of the National Executive
Council, Alhaji Sherrif told the delegates that voting was going to be done
on regional basis ³and they will count and know which region voted for or
against Prof Mills and that will indicate whether you are going to be happy
in the party or not². Sounding the alarm bells, Brogya Gyamfi opined that
the NDC ³will be disintegrated² if President Mills is given a second term,
adding that ³the party will never be united going into the 2012 elections².
Shifting his attention to the termination of his appointment as the deputy
Public Relations Officer at the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council,
Brogya Gyamfi contented that his relationship with the former First Lady was
what had caused him his job. He however said he was unperturbed and will
continue to call for a change of leadership within the NDC. ³It is a known
fact that I believe in Nana Konadu and it is possible that that has caused
my job. I have decided not o talk too much about the intimidationsŠ Even
when we were in opposition, I stood by Professor Mills and the NDC because I
believed that was the best for Ghana. If today, Prof Mills has not been able
to manage the political party that took him into office very well, and the
grassroots base of the party are calling for a change which is what is going
to happen in Sunyani, and I believe in that and I stand by that particular
conviction. If that will cause my head, there is no problem at all with
that².
