{"id":275837,"date":"2011-02-10T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T10:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=51773"},"modified":"2011-02-10T10:30:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T10:30:31","slug":"ndc-leadership-must-wake-up-from-their-slumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/10\/ndc-leadership-must-wake-up-from-their-slumber\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC Leadership Must Wake Up From Their Slumber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_32625\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32625\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-32625\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/11\/12\/we-would-hold-dr-kwabena-adjei-responsible-if-anything-happens-to-dela-coffie-fonkar\/kwabena_adjei\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32625\" title=\"kwabena_adjei\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/kwabena_adjei.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Kwabena adjei<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe current executive under the  chairmanship of Dr Kwabena Adjei did a yeoman\u2019s job in winning victory  for the National Democratic Congress in 2008.<br \/>\nThe 2008  elections, which went into the history books as the closest Presidential  Elections ever held in our country was a very difficult one for both  the then incumbent New Patriotic Party and the NDC. It was an NDC\u2019s  election to win considering that the NPP under His Excellency President  Kufuor had concluded a full 8-year term in office. But victory didn\u2019t  come to the NDC on a plate of gold.<br \/>\nTwo years down the line and  another two years to the next general elections, the leadership of the  NDC appears to be still basking in the victory of the 2008 elections.  They have virtually closed their eyes to the glaring realities  manifesting itself on the Ghanaian political landscape and sadly our  leadership appears to be lost in a political dreamland.<br \/>\nAs at  now, the party has failed to publish and make available to its officers  across the country the revised constitution supposedly agreed upon  during our Tamale Congress. For a party that believes so much in  democratic procedures of going about things, one may wonder what set of  laid down rules and regulations the party is currently being run on. Can  the leadership tell the ordinary NDC member on the street of Teshie  Tsuibleoo which version of the party\u2019s constitution is currently in use?  Or are we now using an \u201cunwritten constitution\u201d in the NDC? We ought to  be serious!<br \/>\nWhat about our impending Presidential Primaries?  Does anybody know when this will be held and the modalities to be  followed? Since August 2010 when the opposition NPP expanded its  Electoral College to ensure that polling station executives across the  nation take part in the process of selecting a Presidential Candidate  for the NPP, has it ever crossed the minds of the leadership of the NDC  to at least ignite a debate within the various structures of our party  to identify the merits and demerits of such an exercise?<br \/>\nMaybe I  need to get practical to drum home the message to our party\u2019s  leadership. We are going into competition with a contender that until  recently was the market leader, isn\u2019t it prudent that when the  competitor increased its retail outlets from 2,340 to about 115,000 we  sit down and assess the implications of such a move and its impact on  our corporate survival?<br \/>\nCan MTN pretend not to be bothered if  all of a sudden Tigo increases its retail outlets from 2,340 to 115,000?  If we own Coca Cola, wouldn\u2019t we call for an emergency management  meeting if out of the blue Pepsi Cola increases its distribution and  retail outlets by that astronomical 4,800 per cent? It is so amazing yet  pathetic that a party that won the last elections by ONLY 40,000 votes,  and which had to go through a second round and a by-election at Tain in  the Brong Ahafo region for it to win, should be sitting as if  unconcerned about this development.<br \/>\nIt is becoming clear that the  current executive of the NDC with their collaborators at the Castle are  afraid that should there be a transparent debate on the subject, there  could be a major swing to a more democratic NDC leadership electoral  system which could damage the chances of the incumbents. This fear is  partly because although many candidates for Party positions campaigned  towards the Tamale Congress last year to support NDC FOOTSOLDIERS and  the YOUTH in general, the Party Chairman and others, after getting the  nod at Congress, suddenly came out against NDC foot-soldiers to the  extent of even denying their very existence.<br \/>\nAt the same time,  many commentaries have been alluding to a situation where the Party  leadership has been collaborating with the Castle to undermine the role  of the Founder and his wife, and to some extent the more vocal and  independent-minded amongst the cadre corps. The effect of all of this is  that the Castle and the Kwabena Adjei-led executives are afraid that  should there be a wider voting within the NDC, the incumbent will lose  hence this exhibition of the proverbial ostrich\u2019s tendencies.<br \/>\nAgain,  one can feel the disenchantment within the rank and file of the party.  Outside the corridors of the power players, the government has managed  to wean itself from the party\u2019s grassroots functionaries and the party  leadership too appears to be clueless about that. Across the country,  our branches and wards are no more in existence. In some places, even  Constituency meetings have ceased. As for the Youth and Women meetings,  the least talked about them the better. In a threshold of an election  year, can this happen within any serious political party, more so a  party in government?<br \/>\nSomebody walk to Dr. Kwabena Adjei and his  other executive members, take off their spectacles, tap them into  reality, look them straight in the eyes and deliver this message to them  for me, \u201cthe 2012 elections is just around the corner. It is ours to  win and they can\u2019t afford to fail us. It is about time they woke up from  their slumber and do the needful. For winning an election, like we saw  in 2008, is no \u201ccat-killing business\u201d. Need I say more\u2026\u2026?<br \/>\nGod bless our homeland Ghana.<br \/>\nSource:   Nii Ayi Anteh, Ledzokuku Constituency Email: gentlepope@yahoo.co.uk  (The writer is also a branch chairman in the Tsui Bleoo Electoral Area  of the Ledzokuku Constituency)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current executive under the chairmanship of Dr Kwabena Adjei did a yeoman\u2019s job in winning victory for the National Democratic Congress in 2008. 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