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The NDC Professionals Forum (Pro-Forum) has sent words of congratulations to all newly-elected national executives of the party for their resounding electoral victories at the 10th National Delegates Congress.

In a press statement on Tuesday, Pro-Forum also encouraged those “who were not too lucky” and further wished them “better luck next time.”

“We place on record our appreciation for the Alex Sebgefia led-Planning Committee for organising one of the best National Congresses of the NDC. The whole process was very peaceful, democratic, and beautiful as witnessed by the whole world,” the statement said.

Pro-Forum thanked the Ghana Police Service and the Electoral Commission of Ghana for their great sense of professionalism that ensured a successful congress.

Signed by the President of the Professional Forum, Sam Pee Yalley, the statement expressed sincere gratitude to all delegates for their loyalty and endurance towards the umbrella party.

“It’s been three days after the Congress, and there has not been any reported incidence so we thank all drivers for driving our Delegates back to their homes peacefully,” the statement added.

Furthermore, the Professionals Forum offered their appreciation and gratefulness to the NDC Congress for approving their Application for Affiliation

The NDC Professionals Forum, parenthetically, pledged their full unalloyed support for the party.

“We will continue to serve the Party with our diversified expertise, rich experiences, and resources until the Party gains political power to offer Ghanaians a people Centered transparent and accountable government.”

9,200 NDC delegates from the 276 constituencies gathered at the Accra Sports Stadium for the 10th National Delegates Congress at the Accra Sports Stadium on December 17, 2022.

Held under the theme, ‘Rallying for Victory 2024’, the congress assembled 63 candidates who contested for 11 positions.

At the end of the contest, Fiifi Kwetey was voted as the new General Secretary while Johnson Asiedu Nketia gave Samuel Ofosu Ampofo an upsetting defeat to clinch the National Chairman position.

Source: Ghana Web

National Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joseph Yamin, has accused the Kumasi Mayor, Samuel Pyne of sabotaging his election through diabolic tactics.

“Going into our national delegates congress last week, Sam Pyne hired people to remove all my posters and banners in the region to block my visibility. Though he assured me that he will protect my posters for me, he was the same person fighting against me behind the scenes,” he alleged in an interview on Kumasi-based Abusua FM.

The former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister vowed to win at least 7 parliamentary seats in the Ashanti region during the election 2024 which they can’t afford to lose.

Although he refused to mention the said constituencies the party is targeting he said he will spend much of his campaign activities in the Ashanti region.

“I’m the national organizer of the NDC therefore, I have the responsibility to work across all constituencies in the country but trust me I will be more visible in the Ashanti region. I will stop all their rigging machines’’ he assured. The former deputy sports minister assured that the NDC will eschew violence in the 2024 election.”

“It’s going to be a tactical election campaign in which the NDC will resist all threats and violence attacks.”

“I can assure all NDC supporters across the country that the current NDC national executive will secure victory for the party all we need from you the party members is to support our work according to our tactics and instruction’’

He said the current NPP national executives can never match the NDC’s newly elected national executives.

“Justin Kodua, Nana B among others when I started politics they were doing TESCON politics. Although they have won their positions but they can never retain the NPP in power they will set a new record which is leading the NPP into opposition. I’m not surprised the NPP is worried about my election’’.

Source: Ghana Web

The leadership of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has stated its stance on the calls for the finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta to be removed from office.

General Secretary of the NPP, Justin Frimpong Koduah has stated that every decision concerning the removal of Ofori-Atta will be made public after the budget debate in parliament.

“As we all know we are still in the debate stage in Parliament so I can assure you that once we are through with the process, the party will come back and whatever decision that will be taken between the party, members of Parliament and the presidency, we will make it known to the media and Ghanaians at large,” JFK said while speaking to some journalists in Accra.

This statement comes at the back of the staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to procure $3M.

It will be recalled that over 80 MPs on Tuesday, October 25, held a press conference to demand that Ken Ofori-Atta and Charles Adu Boahen be sacked from their respective roles.

This led to a meeting with President Akufo-Addo where he requested that the finance minister be allowed to conclude the IMF talks and present the 2023 budget statement.

Source: Ghana Web

A former Deputy General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen, has said that the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, is currently the best politician in Ghana.

Speaking in an Akoma FM interview monitored by GhanaWeb, Obiri Boahen said that Dr Bawumia stands out despite the current hardships in the country now.

The former NPP deputy general secretary suggested that Dr Bawumia cannot be faulted for the bad performance of Ghana’s economy even though he is the head of the country’s Economic Management Team.

“When the NPP lifts the ban (on campaigning for the party’s flagbearership position), I will be bringing a man called Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time). Bawumia, the GOAT.

“He (Dr Bawumia) is the only person in Ghana being awarded by the Pan African Magazine as one of the most influential people in Africa. Bawumia, the GOAT.

“I am saying what I have seen. Whether the dollar is appreciating, depreciating or is stable, Bawumia is the GOAT. When the time comes, we will be giving you more details,” he said in Twi.

Source: Ghana Web

President John Dramani Mahama has succeeded in convincing the aggrieved defeated National Youth Organiser aspirant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Yaw Brogya Genfi to withdraw his interim injunction against George Opare Addo.

Mr Genfi secured the injunction at the Amasaman High Court on Friday, December 17, citing unfair electoral practices that in his view led to his defeat at the NDC’s Youth and Women’s Conference held at the University of Cape Coast.

He lost by 25 votes to the current National Youth Organiser, popularly referred to as Pablo.

Mr Mahama, however, said he has met with Mr Genfi and the outcome of their successful discussion is the decision to withdraw the case from court.

“We must work together, fully committed to Victory 2024, and the discussion with comrade Genfi was most encouraging,” Mr Mahama stated.

He stressed that the NDC must focus on building a united front at all levels of the party, “and this is a great beginning.”

Mr Genfi has also in a statement confirmed his decision to withdraw the case and also called for a united front to enable the NDC to wrestle power from the NPP in 2024

Source: Ghana Web

Broadcaster Paul Adom-Otchere has said that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) elected party radicals to the national executive positions of the party in the just-ended delegate congress.

He explained that except for the National Youth Organiser, Geroge Opare Addo, all the NDC national executives the delegates elected are radicals because they appeal to only core supporters of the party and not neutrals or moderate supporters.

“What the NDC did on Saturday is to give a clear signal one way or the other. So, what the NDC did was elect party radicals, that is what they did.

“Johnson Asiedu Nketiah (the NDC chairman) is an ultimate radical… Yamin (the National Organiser) is a very, very radical person. Fifi Kwetey is a complete radical, very clever man I have to say. Sammy Gyamfi (National Communication Officer) is a complete radical, he also appeals to the core of the NDC supporters,” he said during an editorial on his Good Evening Ghana programme on Tuesday, December 12, 2022, which was monitored by GhanaWeb.

Adom-Otchere, however, questioned whether the move by the delegates of the party to elect NDC radicals could help the party secure victory in the 2024 general elections.

According to him, whenever the NDC wins a presidential election, it has moderate NDC members in its executive body or as its presidential candidate or running mate who attract neutral voters.

He added that former President John Dramani Mahama, who is the presumptive candidate of the NDC, was previously considered a moderate NDC member but now appeals more to radical members of the party.

Johnson Asiedu Nketiah won the party’s Chairmanship race at the National Delegates Congress held at the Accra Sports Stadium on Saturday, December 12, 2022.

Asiedu Nketia garnered 5574 while his contenders Ofosu Ampofo had 2892 votes; Samuel Yaw Adusei, 52 votes and Nii Armah Ashietey, 38 votes.

Source: Ghana Web

The General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), has said that the newly elected General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Fifi Kwetey, must be able to differentiate between his role as the chief executive of the NDC and his previous role as the propaganda secretary of the party.

Justin Frimpong Kodua (JFK) said that Fifi Kwetey must engage in issue-based politics and desist from spreading lies about his political opponents as he did when he was the propaganda secretary of the NDC.

Speaking on the sidelines of an NPP press conference on Wednesday, December 22, 2022, the NPP general secretary added that he is advising Fifi Kwetey because he is senior to him when it comes to the general secretary role.

“As you know, I’m senior to him; I became general secretary before he did. So, as a junior general secretary, I gave him advice which is straightforward. He should know that he is no longer a propaganda secretary.

“… but he has become an administrator of a major political party in Ghana, and his actions and inactions should match the position that he occupies.

“We all know what happened in 2008 when he made serval unsavoury comments about former President Kufour that he has stolen all the gold in Ghana … and also (that the) NPP has foreign accounts that turned out to be false,” he said.

JFK also stated that the NPP is unconcerned about the calibre of people the NDC has chosen as national executives.

He added that the outcome of the 2024 general elections will be determined by the strategy the two leading political parties put in place.

Source: Ghana Web