Executive Director of the Global InfoAnalytics, Mussah Dankwah has justified his decision to conduct polls into the flagbearer race of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), although the time is not yet for their internal elections.
His justifications come on the back of concerns raised by some members of the NDC that the polls are creating problems for the governing party.
For instance, Deputy General Secretary of the governing NDC, Mustapha Gbande, criticised Mussa Dankwah, over ongoing opinion polls on the party’s future flagbearer race, accusing him of creating tensions and divisions within the NDC.
Mussah Danlwah stated that the polls are not commissioned by the government or government officials. He said the exercise is meant to assist persons to know their strengths to decide whether or not to contest.
“Opinion polls give you an early snapshot of people’s minds. helps you to make the decision whether to go or not to go.
Opinion polls are not projections into the future, it is today’s events,” he said on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday, June 6.
“You will see those who are viable and those who are not,” he added.
Meanwhile, lawyer Kofi Bentil has told President John Dramani Mahama to take the difficult decision to let some of his appointees, whose names have come up as having an interest in the NDC flagbearer race, step aside.
He makes the point that those appointees who have presidential ambition will not focus on governance but will rather pay attention to building a bloc for themselves in the party to advance their interests.
“Make the difficult decision, let some people step aside,” he said on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday, June 6.
“… If you are interested in the flagbearership, everything you do is building a war chest so the work of real governance is secondary,” he stressed.
In another development, Kofi Bentil said that the victory of the National Democratic Congress in the 2024 general elections had nothing to do with the changes that the National Chairman of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, made to the then minority leadership.
Kofi Bentil says that among the factors that led to the NDC’s victory, the change made to the minority leadership does not feature in the list.
Mr Asiedu Nketiah recently stated that the NDC’s 2023 parliamentary leadership reshuffle was instrumental in the party’s electoral success and also revealed that he personally recommended Haruna Iddrisu and Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak for key ministerial appointments after the NDC’s return to power in 2024.
Mr Asiedu Nketiah, during the NDC’s “Thank You Tour” in Tamale, where he defended the party’s parliamentary leadership reshuffle ahead of the 2024 elections, describing it as a crucial factor in securing victory at the polls.
Kofi Bentil said that “It is not true that the reshuffle he did was his political manoeuvring for his future. The outcome of that election had nothing to do with the reshuffling done.”
