If the opposition National Democratic Congress were to go to congress now to elect a flagbearer to lead the party in the 2020 elections, Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu would have gotten a vote without campaigning.
This is because the former Greater Accra Region Minister Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo believes the leader of the Minority has better credentials to lead the party in the next elections.
He told Drive Time host Lexis Bill in the Personality Profile segment of the show that if he were a woman, he would have married him without blinking an eye.
He touted his eloquence and leadership style as some of the qualities that have endeared Mr Iddrisu to him.
Mr Iddrisu has yet to make public his presidential ambitions even though sources close to him have confirmed to Myjoyonline.com the Minority Leader's ambition to lead the party.
Per the party's constitution, a flagbearer can only be elected two years to an election when the party is in opposition and barely a year if the party is in power.
The NDC with president John Mahama lost the 2016 election to the then opposition New Patriotic Party led by Nana Akufo-Addo who is now the president.
John Mahama was seeking his second term in office, even though it would have been the party's third term in office if he had won.
This means the former president still has the chance to return as the leader of the NDC in 2020 when the country goes to the polls.
However there are a number of potential candidates who have not made public their ambitions but have supporters and identifiable groups within the party subtly campaigning for them.
Former Trades Minister Ekow Spio Garbrah, former NHIA boss, Sylvester Mensah and Prof Joshua Alabi's name have all come as possible flagbearers of the NDC in 2020.
But Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo's said even though he belongs to no camp within the party, he believes Haruna Iddrisu stands tall amongst the candidates.
When Lexis asked him to mention who his favourite candidate is apart from the former president Afotey Agbo said:
"For me there is one person that I have always admired based on his eloquence and his actions and what I have known him for and that is Haruna Iddrisu.
"That is my darling boy or my darling man. If I were to be a woman i would have married him," he said.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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Too young, and Akans won't vote for another p3p3ni.
Akans dont own Ghana is not for them whatever they are prepared for we arereadyfor them. if ur Kings choose to deal in drugs and defraud people makes them no bettter than others. After Akuffo Addo has just detoxitfied himself from cocain and other hard drugs and by de mercy of de good people of Ghana he is President why not Haruna who is of better moral uprightness.
Imagine Ghana with this kola nut chewing guy as president - kwa kwa kwa!!! You are not serious. Afotey Agbo. You NDC people are very silllly and lack people with personality and brains.
This surely tells me that the NDC is a spent force.Haruna is their star?Oh come on Surely you can do better than that. Ezenator Rawlings is a more respectable and presentable candidate than this talking gong of a parliamentarian.I simply cannot imagine Ghana with this guy as president.Anyway the one saying these things is one of the clowns in the NDC.Head full of saw-dust..
YOU ARE TALKING TOO MUCH. DO YOU THINK SOME OF US WILL SIT DOWN FOR ANOTHER NORTHERNER TO COME AND SEND US BACK? BRING HIM AND YOU WILL SEE.
stuuuuupid idea. what has haruna done to deserve this. All he does is make noise in parliament. Go and see how dirty and wretched Tamale is. He has fooooooooooled them to vote for him. Why should such a self-seeking fuuuuuuuul be allowed to run Ghana. Haven't we learnt from the lesson of JM? There are far far better people to head ghana. Use your sense. Edddddiotic NDC man.
I support the views of some people here. talking in parliament is not a valid criteria to be president. We want people who have helped improve the lives of their neigborhood. Haruna is from a big zongo called Tamale. The place is still a zongo even though he has been their MP for so many years. Why should we give the rest of the country to him when he cannot improve the economic well being of the Tamale people. This suggestion can only be made by a fuuuuuuuuul Therefore, Agbo, in my candid opinion, is a biiiig fat foooooooooul.
this will never happen. there are better people who can head ghana. some of us will use ethnic and religion to stop such a foooooooooooool from getting near the presidency. p3 p3nin kwasssshia
northerners do not do anything apart from parasite on the AKan people. and u want to pick another parasite to head ghana. You must be mad.
foooolish, dumbbb and stuuuuupid idea. who will vote for this northerner talkative?