A number of persons including Member of Parliament for Nadowli-Kaleo, Alban Bagbin, Ekow Spio Garbrah retired Vice-Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies Prof Joshua Alabi and Former Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance (NHIA), Sylvester Mensah have joined the NDC flagbearership race.
John Mahama, on the other hand, has not officially declared his intention to become an aspirant for the NDC despite hints of his return as candidate.
Asked by host of ’21 minutes with KKB’, Kwabena Kyenkyenhene Boateng, which of the aspirants will lead the NDC, Mr Smith claimed that nine out of ten people he spoke to said they would be glad to have former president John Dramani Maham as president.
He explained that based on his interactions with some NDC members, he strongly believes that a large number of NDC folks would love to see Mahama back on the presidential seat because “he did well for the country”.
“I’m on the ground. I can talk about what the people are looking at. About 90% of NDC people want John Mahama back. They think he did well for this country. Nine out ten people I’ve spoken to.”
Meanwhile, the opposition NDC have declared they are ready to return to the Flagstaff House after they conceded to a painful defeat to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) after the 2016 December polls.
The former Diplomat admitted that the party did their best to retain power but he figured that “somethings went wrong and we would need to clean up our act.”
Confident that the NDC will come back to power in 2020, he added “I think NDC we must close our ranks very quickly and deal with the issues that took us down, clean up our act and prepare for battle.” Read Full Story
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