It is with utmost desire that we, the Coalition of Worried NDC Members (COWOM), a pressure group in the NDC, express our dissatisfaction with manner in which Prof. Atta Mills and his G.A.M.E are managing the affairs of our dear party-NDC. In the past few months, Prof. Atta Mills and his G.A.M.E have demonstrated that they are more concerned about the activities of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), rather than our party - the ultimate National Democratic Congress. There are many publications in the Media that justify these claims.
The fact is, we are reliably informed that H.E J.E.A. Mills is using state resources and that of the party, to sponsor some personalities who are contesting for National Positions in the upcoming delegates’ congress of the CPP. These actions have become necessary for Prof. Mills and his team to take because their fear is that Prof. Mills is faced with the likelihood of losing his flagbearership slot for NDC, come 9th July. These and many other things are what they are doing to keep their presence in the CPP, so that should in case Prof. Mills loses at Congress, he would immediately contest on the ticket of the CPP, through the planned machinations of his puppets in the CPP.
It would also be recalled that just some few days past, a statement issued by a Pro-CPP Group calling itself the Sankofa Convention People’s Movement urged delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to vote for President John Evans Atta Mills as the flag bearer in the July 9 primaries in Sunyani. The statement even went further to say that “all Nkrumaist and members of the CPP must throw their weight behind Samia Nkrumah, who has expressed her desire to contest for chairperson of the CPP”. As it is now, we cannot appreciate the chemistry or correlation between these two parties.
We want to state that we are not concerned about what President Mills does with the CPP; we also don’t have problem with the above stated revelations. But our main concern has to do with the fact that President Mills must come out clearly and tell us whether he wants to contest on the ticket of CPP or the NDC. We are tempted to believe that some people want to sacrifice the core principles, surrounding the establishment of our dear party (NDC) for that of another, just to satisfy their whims and caprices. We are of the opinion that the best candidate to represent the NDC in the 2012 elections is the former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings. She has constantly shown that she is a visionary leader, honest and a mother who is much concerned about the plight of the ordinary Ghanaian and that, she is not prepared to align our party with another party which does not share in our common goal as social democrats.
The unpleasant truth is that the President has failed Ghanaians and cannot be given a second term.
Signed on behalf of COWOM,
By: MARTIN MENSAH ABEIKU (Spokesperson)
Tel: 026-0571064
