As the most popular political party, the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) goes to congress on Saturday 9, 2011 to elect a flag bearer to lead the party into the 2012 national elections. It is an undeniable fact that, 1st in the history of Ghana�s politics / democracy, a sitting president is being contested from among his own party for the slot.
I therefore urge former President Jerry John Rawlings, regardless of everything to exhibit neutrality in the current division in the party along President John Evans Atta Mills, Nana Konadu and Ekow Spio Garbrah lines and bring both factions together for a successful congress on Saturday July 9, 2011.
It is just an illusion for some party members to presume that there are no divisions in the party and if the current divisions are not dealt with decisively and quickly, the NDC would hand defeats to it self in the December 2012 presidential elections.
The NDC should by now learn from history and what caused their defeat in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. That not withstanding, if they can�t learn from their own history, they can as well learn from their close political competitors � the New Patriotic Party (NPP), �the split that occurred in the Danquah � Busua family along Victor Owusu and Paa Willie line in 1979, which led to the victory for the People�s National Party (PNP)�. Have the NDC party forgotten so soon their own slogan �Unity, Stability and Development�?
Divisions are not in anyway healthy for their Socialist Democratic party�s cohesion and unity. I urge all loyal members and stakeholders of the NDC party to come together and fight the spirit of factionalism, greed, and attacking of individuals� personality that has reared its ugly face in the party, If not, failure will befall the NDC party in the 2012 presidential elections. Blissful Congress NDC!!!
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