{"id":382761,"date":"2011-04-21T01:57:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T01:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/21\/%e2%80%98no-confidence-vote-in-mills-akomea\/"},"modified":"2011-04-21T01:57:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T01:57:40","slug":"no-confidence-vote-in-mills-akomea-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/21\/no-confidence-vote-in-mills-akomea-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No Confidence Vote In Mills &#8211; Akomea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>The Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akomea, believes that the mere fact that former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings has opened up to contest President Atta Mills for the flagbearership position of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) is a clear sign of no confidence in the President and his administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means that inside the NDC itself, there is significant numbers who do not believe that the President is delivering on the \u2018Better Ghana\u2019 agenda,\u201d he said. He was of the conviction that \u201cthe vote of no confidence is so big that it is manifesting in a direct challenge of the President\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Akomea, who is also the sitting Member of Parliament (MP) for Okaikoi South, was speaking with Daily Guide about unfolding events in the ruling party which has virtually divided the NDC into two interest groups, the Mills and the Konadu camps.<\/p>\n<p>He has asked Ghanaians to take a cue from this vote of no confidence in the President by none but his own party members to show him and the NDC red card come December 2012 when they go to the polls to elect a President.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of this, he thinks that under the current circumstance, President Mills stands a better chance than the wife of the NDC\u2019s founder since in his opinion \u201cthe odds are really stark against her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This, according to him, was because the electoral arrangement that the NDC had favoured what he called the \u2018machine,\u2019 the office holders (national executives, council of elders, ministers, MPs, MMDCEs) in the party and that it did not give much room for none office holders at the grassroots level (foot soldiers) to participate in it.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason, he said the President could manipulate the voting pattern by making new appointments for his favourites to go and vote for him on congress day.<\/p>\n<p>Though there is an existing clause in the Constitution of the NDC which makes provision for each constituency to submit a list of 10 voters to elect a flagbearer, Nana Akomea believed the 10 would invariably be composed from the constituency office holders or the executives since each and every one of them would want to go and vote.<\/p>\n<p>As it is, he said, \u201cIt is confined mainly to office holders, constituency executives, regional executives, ministers of state, MMDCEs, council of elders and so on\u201d and \u201cit is dominated by machine politics; office holders, the status quo\u2026that\u2019s what dominates the NDC\u2019s electoral process\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He believes that if Konadu indeed wanted to win the impending primaries, what she and her strategists should have done was for them to have pushed for the introduction of reforms in the Electoral College like the NPP did to allow the grassroots to also participate.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands now, the Communications Director for the NPP foresees NDC foot-soldiers embarking on a series of agitations across the constituencies to demand voting rights since they constitute the support base of the Rawlingses.<\/p>\n<p>He harbours the fear that this could further lead to more turmoil in the already-boiling NDC. Mrs. Rawlings and her supporters however remain unperturbed by some of these analogies since they believe they have done enough to secure her the bid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_5-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See more here: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akomea, believes that the mere fact that former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings has opened up to contest President Atta Mills for the flagbearership position of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) is a clear sign of no confidence in the President and his administration. \u201cIt means that inside the NDC itself, there is significant numbers who do not believe that the President is delivering on the \u2018Better Ghana\u2019 agenda,\u201d he said. He was of the conviction that \u201cthe vote of no confidence is so big that it is manifesting in a direct challenge of the President\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018No Confidence Vote In Mills - Akomea - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/21\/no-confidence-vote-in-mills-akomea-2\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"\u2018No Confidence Vote In Mills - Akomea - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akomea, believes that the mere fact that former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings has opened up to contest President Atta Mills for the flagbearership position of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) is a clear sign of no confidence in the President and his administration. \u201cIt means that inside the NDC itself, there is significant numbers who do not believe that the President is delivering on the \u2018Better Ghana\u2019 agenda,\u201d he said. 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