I read from a www.adomonline.com post that the NDC has decided to withdraw from the Ejisu by-election, scheduled for Tuesday, April 30, 2024.
The reasons given by its General-Secretary Hon. Fiavi Fifi Kwetey, as stated:“…. We have already set into motion processes leading to December 7,…….We want to continue those processes and ensure that come December 7, we are prepared to combat in all the constituencies and Ejisu will be one of them.
So, for this particular by-election, NDC will not be part of it. We are very confident about the processes we have in place. We just want to make sure we have the time to implement them fully. And between now and December 7, we will be in the position to make sure we are deploying everything that we have done so that really will be the way we want to go.”
The NDC is saying that it has set into motion processes leading to December 7 General Elections, which it is very confident in and want to make sure it has time to implement them fully.
Which processes is the NDC talking about? An NDC guru, met me in a funeral some months ago and thinking I am one of them, advised me that, “we must do all we can to target Ashanti and Eastern regions and make sure that the votes there are reduced.” I smiled and said to him, “Well, said!” Then I said to myself, “Why did he not add votes in Volta Region?”
May I ask the NDC to come out clean and share with all Ghanaians what processes it is implementing towards the General Elections? If indeed the processes are legal, moral and good, Ghanaians want to know.
Because apart from normal door-to-door campaigns, holding open rallies, holding townhall meetings and news conferences to convince the electorates that it is the only choice for 2024, I do not see any reason to hide these processes.Unless, something sinister is being laid in motion.
When government was busily constructing rail tracks through NDC strongholds, we all saw what happened. Some miscreants could go and remove the rails and cut them into pieces and sell them as scraps. I never heard the NDC as a party condemning these acts.
When government is busily constructing good roads, we all saw what used to happen. There was a video clip where someone accosted some youths in an NDC stronghold, scraping off gravels on the new roads, loading them on aboboya, to be taken away and sold. The NDC never came out to condemn these acts.
Today, as Ghana is battling with electricity outages, there are scenes of destruction of ECG transmission plants, pulling down of electric poles and stealing of cables, among others to make sure power remains down. May, I humbly ask, is this included in the NDC processes to win the 2024 General Elections, since the NDC has not come out to condemn these acts?
In truth, the excuse given by the NDC for withdrawing from the Ejisu by-elections does not hold water.
Assuming there is by-election today in Ketu-South, will the NDC withdraw? Or let us add Keta constituency or Ada or Shai-Osudoku or Ningo-Prampram, sorry Ningo-Prampram is not included. I do not want my fine son to go just yet. I love him and wish him long years in Parliament, that is Hon Sam George. He is the only Dangbe MP in Parliament who is making Dangbes proud and giving them international recognition, as well. God bless you, Sam.
Yes, supposing there is a by-election in any of the NDC strongholds today, will the NDC withdraw?
Let us face facts here. The NDC knows for a fact that it is not strong on the groundtoday, as it was last year. And with the noise it is making now, any by-election will expose its unpopularity, especially in the Ashanti region where it keeps telling Ghanaians that it will win. If it is indeed sure of that, this by-election should be like a mock-elections for it to test the grounds in Ashanti and do the necessary corrections beforecontesting, Elections 2024.
Top soccer nations, preparing for the World Cup, will take up trial matches to test their preparedness. So, the NDC should have entered into this by-election to access whether the processes it is laying in place are working.
There can be no good excuse, for the NDC, to withdraw from the April 30 event in Ejisu, unless the processes it is putting in place are illegal, immoral and unacceptable.
This could possibly happen in Ejisu on April 30. With the NDC contesting, and putting out George Kwame Huze again as candidate, the Independent candidate, Owusu Aduomi and the NPP candidate,Kwabena Boateng will be far ahead with 90% of valid votes cast between them at 46%-44%, ever which way. George Huze will have to be content with 10% of valid votes cast, which will be over seven percentage points less than he had in 2020.
Such a result will not auger well and will surely make the electorate have noconfidence in the NDC to vote for it in December 2024.
The NDC knows it is losing grounds and so cannot risk damaging the situation by contesting in an election that it knows it will lose miserably.
Hon Daniel Dugan
Editor’s note: Views expressed in this article do not represent that of The Chronicle
