Prior to today’s meeting at Ho, some core regional executive members were reportedly at the Osu castle in Accra yesterday to meet the Vice President, Mr. John Dramani Mahama, to discuss the state of affairs within the party in the region, the Enquirer newspaper gathered.
The Enquirer’s sources at the constituencies disclosed that around 13 hours of Tuesday, the party chairmen received calls from the regional secretariat of the party summoning them to a meeting in Ho today without disclosing the agenda of the meeting.
Some of them hinted that though the agenda has not been disclosed, they suspected that it is the visit by Nana Konadu’s team to the constituencies to meet the delegates, which, according to them, is currently raising agitation, has forced the regional executives to call this meeting.
Some of the constituency chairmen who want to remain anonymous noted that the messages delivered by the Konadu boys have touched their hearts and they would like to work for them, “but” one heaved a sigh.
One of them stated that the concerns raised by Kofi Adams, a Rawlings aide, and other members of the team, which formed the basis of their action “are the real facts on the ground,” but they pray that situations change before the flagbearership race of the party starts.
Most of them said when they get to the meeting today “we will tell them our peace of mind,” adding that but the choice to take or leave them is in the hands of the leadership of the party and government.
They expressed the view that it is the district, municipal and metropolitan chief executives that are “digging the grave for the president,” stressing that until some of the MMDCEs are replaced with hard working and honest party people “the president will not have his peace and should forget it.”
The Volta Regional Chairman of the NDC, Kwesi Aboagye, in an interview with the Enquirer, confirmed the meeting of the constituency chairmen and secretaries and stressed that he has called the meeting in his capacity as the regional chairman of the party but not to campaign for any flagbearership aspirant.
Mr. Aboagye also declined to comment on the brain behind the meeting, explaining that it is purely a party issue and would not like to go public with it. The Enquirer’s sources within the party hinted that the regional executives of the NDC, who were summoned to meet the Vice President, were there to discuss the threat posed by Nana Konadu in the NDC “World Bank” and to find an antidote to it before meeting the delegates today.
Some of the NDC executives who were sighted at the seat of government to meet with the Veep include the regional chairman, Kwesi Aboagye, and his secretary, Simon Amegashie-Viglo, the regional organizer, Henry Ametefe, who is also the regional NADMO coordinator.
The others include the regional women organizer, Mercy Kuwada and the deputy regional organizer, William Attipoe.
The saga has resulted to an open confrontations among the regional executives who are said to be sharply divided, with the above mentioned names on one party, and the regional youth organiser, Mr. Maxwell Owusu Siaw, regional treasurer, Mr. Simon Miles Baka and the propaganda secretary, Nicholas Kwame Fato, who are all sidelined by Mr. Aboagye and his group, to the other side.
Mr. Baka, in an interview, complained bitterly about the move by the chairman and other executives to sideline some of them, indicating “I am neither aware of the meeting with the constituency chairmen and secretaries nor the regional executives meeting with the vice president today.”
He said he has not declared support for either the President or Nana Konadu yet and so could understand the “card being played by the chairman and his group.” Other executives who were also sidelined vowed to meet the chairman and his group boot for boot “if they think they can work alone for the NDC in the region.”
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