Dr. Edward Mahama
The
People’s National Congress (PNC) has set up a 15-man team to work towards the
party’s congress ahead of next year’s presidential and parliamentary polls.
The
committee has a former MP, David Apasera and Cycil Rhodes as chairman and
secretary respectively. The committee members have been tasked to complete
their work so that the congress can possibly take place in May next year, Daily
Guide has learnt from a source within the party.
Barring
unforeseen developments the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) will be
meeting on Saturday 13th July 2019 to deliberate upon relevant
matters to the pending congress.
The PNC
which once boasted of four MPs has none today.
Whether or
not 74-year-old Dr. Edward Mahama would try the presidential slot for the party
once more is a subject of speculation within and without the party.
Two
dyed-in-the-wool members of the party, David Apasera and Henry Haruna Asante it
seems are interested in contesting the chairmanship position.
A party
whose sources of funding are dried up will not find the task ahead of it
smooth-sailing because congresses in particular are cash-intensive.
In previous
times the party could rely on the largesse of another political grouping for
such funding.
The party’s executive elections could take place in the Western Region as the presidential holds in the Eastern Region.
By A.R. Gomda
