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\u00a0By\u00a0Christopher\u00a0Arko \u00a0<\/p>\n
Accra, Dec.17, GNA \u2013 Ghana\u2019s\u00a0largest opposition party, the\u00a0National Democratic Congress, (NDC)\u00a0is poised to\u00a0hold its 10th National\u00a0Delegates\u00a0Congress\u00a0on\u00a0Saturday, December 17, 2022, following months of\u00a0spirited\u00a0campaigns by\u00a0candidates.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The highlight of the\u00a0event\u00a0will\u00a0be the\u00a0election\u00a0of the National Chairman,\u00a0General Secretary\u00a0and other national executives to lead the party into the 2024\u00a0General Election. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Over the period,\u00a0the\u00a0campaigns\u00a0that\u00a0have\u00a0generated the most interest are the\u00a0contests\u00a0for\u00a0National\u00a0Chairman and General Secretary\u00a0because\u00a0of obvious power the\u00a0positions\u00a0yield and\u00a0the nature of the key personalities contesting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The four\u00a0candidates\u00a0for the National Chairmanship race\u00a0arethe incumbent\u00a0Chairman, Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, the current General Secretary, Johnson\u00a0Aseidu Nketiah, NiiArmah Ashietey, a former Greater Accra Regional Minister and\u00a0former MP for Korle Klottey, and\u00a0Mr Samuel Yaw Adusei, a former Deputy\u00a0Minister for Works and Housing and former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, \u00a0under the Mahama administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For\u00a0the General Secretary position, the candidates are\u00a0Dr Peter\u00a0Boamah Otokunor, deputy General Secretary,\u00a0Mr Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, a former\u00a0Member of Parliament for Ketu South and Transport Minister,\u00a0Mr Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, a former Minister of Youth and Sports and Ghana\u2019s Deputy Ambassador to China\u00a0and Mr Abdul Ishaq\u00a0Farrakhan, a former party chairman of the Obuasi Municipality, who contested Mr Aseidu Nketiah in 2014.<\/p>\n
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Political\u00a0commentators assert that\u00a0the contest for the chairmanship is a straight\u00a0\u201cfight\u201d between Chairman Ofosu-Ampofo and Mr Aseidu Nketiah,\u00a0a.k.a. General Mosquito,\u00a0the\u00a0longest serving General Secretary of the NDC (17 years).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both\u00a0candidates have served in various capacities of the Party and in Government through the years,\u00a0and emphasise that\u00a0they are\u00a0the favourites of\u00a0the delegates, and thus are cock sure of their resounding victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nii Ashitey also believes that he is the right person to provide the needed\u00a0leadership for the party to\u00a0win\u00a02024\u00a0General\u00a0Election, after eight years in opposition. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
Also,\u00a0Mr Adusei\u00a0has assured delegates that he is the best to inject dynamism into the party\u2019s campaign to take over from the New Patriotic Party.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Picking a successor for the very popular General Mosquito has also attracted the attention of many lovers and followers of politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dr Otokunor, the current Deputy General Secretary,\u00a0contends that\u00a0he is conversant\u00a0with\u00a0the workings of the office and also\u00a0intends to bring his\u00a0rich\u00a0experience from his role as the Deputy Director of\u00a0Research of the NDC to that position.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mr Fifi Kwetey, a former Minister for Agriculture and a Deputy\u00a0Minister for Finance,\u00a0plus\u00a0two-term Member of Parliament (MP) for Ketu South,\u00a0has also proven to be a forceto reckon with.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Again, Mr Afriyie Ankrah\u00a0highlights that\u00a0having served in a number of executive positions in the NDC, including\u00a0aDeputy General Secretary in 2005, he has been well groomed for the position.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mr Abdul Ishaq Farrakhan\u00a0is\u00a0also counting on his years of loyalty to the party and courage to receive the nod this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Former Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Dr. Sherry Ayitey, is vying for the Vice Chairman position with seven other candidates.<\/p>\n
The incumbent National Communications Officer, Mr Sammy Gyamfi, is going unopposed.<\/p>\n
A total of 10,936 delegates from 276 Constituencies are expected to participate in all the activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 10th National Delegates Congress, which will be addressed by Former President John Dramani Mahama and other leading members of the Party, is under the theme: \u201cRallying for victory 2024; Ghana\u2019s hope\u201d.<\/p>\n
Many giants portraits of the candidates and party flags have been mounted at vantage points the Accra Sports\u00a0Sports\u00a0Stadium, which became alive with the arrival of enthusiastic supporters to music, on Friday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last Saturday, the Women\u2019s and Youth Congress, held in Cape Coast, retained the incumbent organisers of the party, Dr Hanna Louisa Bissiw and Mr George Opare Addo, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Party leadership has assured of tight security to avert any violence as they expressed their disgust over the Cape Coast incident, which nearly marred the election.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Below is the full list of positions and candidates as released by the party:<\/strong><\/p>\n CHAIRMAN<\/p>\n SAMUEL YAW ADUSEI<\/p>\n JOHNSON ASEIDU NKETIA<\/p>\n SAMUEL OFOSU AMPOFO<\/p>\n NII ARMAH ASHIETEY<\/p>\n VICE CHAIRMAN<\/p>\n SHERIF ABDUL-NASIRU<\/p>\n ABANGA YAKUBU ALHASSAN<\/p>\n DR. SHERRY AYITTEY<\/p>\n SETH OFORI OHENE<\/p>\n AWUDU SOFO AZOURKA<\/p>\n ALHAJI AMADU B. SOROGHO<\/p>\n ALHAJI HABIBU ADRAMANI<\/p>\n EVELYN ENYONAM MENSAH<\/p>\n GENERAL SECRETARY<\/p>\n ELVIS AFRIYIE ANKRAH<\/p>\n FIFI FIAVI KWETEY<\/p>\n DR. PETER BOAMAH OTOKUNOR<\/p>\n DEPUTY GENERAL SECRETARY<\/p>\n FRANCIS LANME GURIBE<\/p>\n CATHERINE DEYNU<\/p>\n BARBARA SERWAA ASAMOAH<\/p>\n GBANDE FOYO MUSTAPHA<\/p>\n KWAME ZU<\/p>\n BRADI PAUL OPATA<\/p>\n EVANS AMOO<\/p>\n NATIONAL ORGANIZER<\/p>\n JOSHUA HAMIDU AKAMBA<\/p>\n HENRY OSEI AKOTO<\/p>\n MAHDI MOHAMMED GIBRILL<\/p>\n SIDII ABUBAKARI<\/p>\n SOLOMON YAW NKANSAH<\/p>\n CHIEF HAMILTON BINEY NIXON<\/p>\n JOSEPH YAMMIN<\/p>\n DEPUTY NATIONAL ORGANIZER<\/p>\n KOBBY BARLON<\/p>\n HABIB MOHAMMED TAHIRU<\/p>\n ELIKEM ERIC KEVIN KWAME KOTOKO<\/p>\n ALHAJI YAW KUNDOW<\/p>\n COMMUNICATION OFFICER<\/p>\n SAMMY GYAMFI<\/p>\n DEPUTY COMMUNICATION OFFICER<\/p>\n GODWIN AKO GUNN<\/p>\n ADONGO ATULE JACOB<\/p>\n MALIK BASINTALE<\/p>\n KWAKU BOAHEN ANTHONY<\/p>\n MOHAMMED NAZIRU<\/p>\n YOUTH ORGANIZER<\/p>\n BROGYA GENFI<\/p>\n GEORGE OPARE ADDO<\/p>\n DEPUTY YOUTH ORGANIZER<\/p>\n OSMAN ABDULAI AYARIGA<\/p>\n RUTH DELA SEDDOH<\/p>\n BRIGHT NUDOKPO HONU<\/p>\n SULEMANA ABDUL KARIM<\/p>\n MOHAMMED ABUBAKARI SADIQ GOMBILLA<\/p>\n KABIRU AHMED<\/p>\n ERIC DADSON<\/p>\n PENDILOCK OWUSU ASARE<\/p>\n OBED OPINTAN<\/p>\n JUDE SEKLEY<\/p>\n WOMEN ORGANIZER<\/p>\n MARGARET ANSEI<\/p>\n DR. HANNA LOUISA BISIW<\/p>\n DEPUTY WOMEN ORGANIZER<\/p>\n ABIGAIL AKWABEA ELORM MENSAH<\/p>\n FELICIA DZIFA TEGAH<\/p>\n JESSIE ADAMS<\/p>\n HAJIA ALIJATA SULEMANA<\/p>\n ZONGO CAUCUS CO-ORDINATOR-\u00a0<\/p>\n ABASS ZULKARNAIN KAMBARI<\/p>\n HON. ALHAJI BABANLAMIE ABU SADAT<\/p>\n MAMAH MOHAMMED COLE YOUNGER<\/p>\n ABDUL-AZIZ MOHAMMED<\/p>\n YAKUBU MAHMUD MUDI<\/p>\n NEC MEMBERS<\/p>\n EPHRAIM NII TAN SACKEY<\/p>\n PEREZ FERNANDEZ ARMAH LARYEA<\/p>\n ISSAHAKU ISSAH ADEL<\/p>\n REV. IRENE SENA AGBLEKE<\/p>\n ABDULLAH FARRAKHAN ISHAQ<\/p>\n MALIK ADAMA<\/p>\n VICTORIA KUMA-MINTAH<\/p>\n EMMANUEL EWOENAM YAO ADZOME-DZOKANDA<\/p>\n CECILIA N. ASAGA<\/p>\n EBENEZER EFFAH HACKMAN<\/p>\n NAJAWA ALHAJI ISSAH<\/p>\n STEPHEN LADZEDO<\/p>\n ANITA ANNAN<\/p>\n RANSFORD CHATMAN VANNI-AMOAH<\/p>\n THOMAS AYISI KUMAH<\/p>\n WONDER VICTOR KUTOR<\/p>\n MOHAMMED MAMUDU<\/p>\n ARABA TAGOE<\/p>\n FAMOUS KWESI KUADUGAH<\/p>\n GNA\u00a0<\/p>\nRelated News<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n