Speaking on the Citi Eyewitness News on Thursday, Mr. Obiri Boahene said the vilifications, trading of insults between the perceived Mills faction and the Rawlings’ faction is a clear indication that the party will be doomed in 2012 if the two factions do not unite within the next few months.
“The signs are so obvious, so obvious for every average Ghanaian to make a prediction of that sort. Look at the infighting going on, it is not a mere infighting going on. Trading of insults, accusations vilifications and what have you. They are not going to heal the wounds now or the next few months.
From now till May when they close the nominations and until July when they come to Sunyani for their congress, terrible things are going to happen to the NDC.
“I am not predicting the doom of the party but I can stick my neck out and say without the slightest reservation that worse things are going to happen to the NDC. Look at what is happening in the party; insults from Konadu’s camp to Mills’s camp on daily basis…things are not working well for the NDC at all”.
According to Mr Obiri Boahene, the opposition New Patriotic Party unlike the NDC is much more united than before adding that “with singleness of purpose the NPP will dislodge the NDC in the 2012 elections”.
The NDC has been in some form of severe internal bickering after the former first lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings declared her intentions to contest President Mills for the flagbearership slot of party ahead of election 2012.
Although Mrs Rawlings is yet to pick her forms to confirm her intentions, it is clear that she will contest President Mills after she resigned from her position as a Vice Chair of the party.
Former President Rawlings, who has been an ardent critic of the Mills-Mahama administration has publicly stated that he would not campaign for President Mills should President Mills win the nod to lead NDC for a second term.
However, the Propaganda Secretary of the NDC Richard Quashigah has dismissed Mr Obiri Boahene’s claims that the NDC will fall in 2012.
Mr Quashigah told Citi FM that despite the happenings in the NDC, the party is still united and focussed on delivering on its Better Ghana Agenda. He said contrary to reports of insults and perceived acrimony between the Rawlingses and President Mills, the party would come out of their congress and win the 2012 elections convincingly.
“I want to assure you that all this will come to an end after the congress. The NDC will remain one united party after the congress and the NPP’s expectations and dreams would be an illusion…NDC is performing and Ghanaians know it”.
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