General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketsiah, says the party has given members who have gone rogue and are preparing to contest the December polls as independent candidates a seven-day period to rescind their decisions.
Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, Mr. Asiedu-Nketsiah said the party intends to present a united front in the 2012 elections and therefore expects those who have filed as independent candidates to withdraw their candidature.
Some key members of the party who have decided to go independent are Dr. Ato Quarshie in the Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem and Michael Teye Nyaunu, MP for Lower Manya Constituency. There are fears that the candidates can affect the chances of the NDC in the election.
But Mr. Asiedu-Nketsiah said: “The decision of the National Executive Committee with respect to these candidates is that we are giving them one week from today to decide whether they want to be part of the NDC in which case they will withdraw these nominations or else after one week from today, they would have abdicated from the NDC.”
Mr. Asiedu-Nketsiah said the party will present candidates in all the 275 constituencies unlike in 2008 when the party failed to present candidates in parts of the Ashanti Region.