The Editor of the Daily Dispatch Newspaper and Pollster Ben Ephson has entreated NDC gurus who have expressed interests to lead the party in 2020 elections to team up to beat former President John Dramani Mahama.
He said Mr Mahama will have upper hand if the candidates contesting for the flagbearership position are plenty.
“There are five of them maybe they can decide that let’s form a ticket that one will contest and one will be running mate. The more candidates they have the more advantageous it is for Mahama. They can get talking to see if they can join forces to beat Mahama,” Mr Ephson told Starr News.
Mr Ephson’s advise comes at a time Mr Mahama in a Facebook post declared his intention to contest the NDC’s primaries which will take off November 2018.
He said Mr Mahama who has been mum about rumours of his interest said his interest is borne out of the numerous calls by his teeming supporters and sympathizers.
“The zeal and determination of the average sympathizer of our great party is greater and miles ahead of what it was after the December 2016 Elections. We need to keep up with the momentum generated and follow the published timelines.
“To you the teeming supporters and sympathizers calling and requesting me to declare my intentions for the future, I wish to assure you today, that as a servant-leader, I have listened to your calls and reflected. I will not disappoint you even as we await the publication of the party’s guidelines for selecting a new leader,” Mahama said.
Mr Mahama woefully lost the 2016 general elections to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
He is likely to wrestle for the presidential candidate position for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) with some party gurus such as the former Minister for Trade and Industry Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, second deputy Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin, former NHIA boss Sylvester Mensah and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies Accra (UPSA), Prof. Joshua Alabi who have openly expressed interests to contest when the party opens nomination.
By: Ghana/Ultimatefmonline.com/106.9FM
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