NDC misbehaved in office – Martin Amidu

Former Attorney General and stalwart of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Martin Amidu has said his party was kicked out of office because they misbehaved while in government

According to him, this was evidenced in the humiliating defeat the NDC suffered in the last general elections.

Martin Amidu, anti-corruption crusader himself, prior to the election campaigned vigorously against his own party calling on Ghanaians to reject the corruption-ridden party and lashed at the Mahama-government at the least opportunity in his articles.

He was also attacked the NDC government for being lackadaisical in retrieving the controversial GHc51 million wrongfully paid businessmen Alfred Agbesi Woyome as judgment debt.

Following Mr. Amidu’s incessant attacks, some members of the NDC in August 2017 petitioned the leadership of the party to suspend him.

But speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on Wednesday, Mr. Amidu rejected the claims saying his attacks were not geared towards causing disaffection for the NDC but to put the Mahama government on its toes.

He said: “I was advocating for people to make reasonable choices to determine whether the behavior of not retrieving these monies [GHc51 million paid Alfred Woyome] which I thought was intentional, justifies anybody being brought back to power. My purpose was not to get the NDC out but to get people to appreciate the power they have under the constitution and if in doing that the NDC was removed I think that it gives them the chance to sit back and think why the people of Ghana rejected them because they couldn’t have been removed without a sizable number of NDC people voting for the NPP.”

“Don’t forget that in this country both the NDC and NPP have their core votes and the governments change because one group supporters would have supported the other group to win. So if the NDC supporters supported NPP to win; it means they agreed with me that we were misbehaving so we ought to go to the drawing board and reorganize ourselves. I don’t think that it’s against the interest of the founding values of the NDC. So to say I helped the NPP to win; of course any human being will reap the quarrel between two siblings. And if they reaped it then so be it but that wasn’t the intention,” he added.

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By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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Former Attorney General and stalwart of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Martin Amidu has said his party was kicked out of office because they misbehaved while in government According to him, this was evidenced in the humiliating defeat the NDC suffered in the last general elections. Martin Amidu, anti-corruption crusader himself, prior to the ... Read Full Story