Former Central Region Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs, has urged party delegates to vote out General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, during national executive elections.
According to him, some executives at the party’s headquarters have organised themselves into a mafia and are stalling the progress of the party ahead of the general elections in 2020.
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This mafia, according to him, is headed by Asiedu Nketia.
Speaking on Adom FM’s Current Affairs show, Burning Issues, Monday the vociferous former Chairman of the party said “for me personally I’m supporting Koku Anyidoho. There is a need for a change at the NDC headquarters. A lot of the mafia in the NDC headquarters must be changed”.
The NDC organised its regional elections over the weekend which saw some huge surprises.
Five heavyweights were given the shocks of their lives last when they were defeated in their quest to become regional chairmen of the party in their respective regions.
In the Western Region, incumbent Michael Aidoo aka Big Aidoo also lost his position as chairman whereas the Greater Accra Regional Chairman, Mr Joseph Kobina Ade Coker, retained his position after a closely contested election.
Allotey Jacobs, a former Board Member of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), said he believes in blending both old and new executives to steer the affairs of the party, however, he thinks the party is going about it wrongly.
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He warns that the party risks losing in 2020.
He says there are certain people within the old executives whose commitment to the party and organizational skills were commendable and must be supported to contest again.
Meanwhile, he has exempted John Mahama from the leadership that must be changed.
According to him, John Mahama stands tall amongst all the presidential aspirants because all the other aspirants are all his former appointees and “a student cannot be better than his tutor”.
Allotey Jacobs has also described political pundits predicting doom for president Mahama in the general election as making “jaundice analysis.”