National Chairman hopeful of NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has lashed out the National Chairman of the NDC, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, for being a coward to face the NPP.
According to him, voting for the currents chairman is an endorsement of a chairman who lacks courage to stand up to the NPP when it matters most.
He has therefore charged the delegates of the party to vote against the incumbent National Chairman in the Upcoming national delegates conference.
Mr. Nketia, who officially announced his bid to contest Ofosu-Ampofo for the chairmanship slot said, the current executive lacks the skills to match up to the NPP in the 2024 general election.
Citing the 2019 Ayawaso West Wuogon by-elect as an example, he said Chairman Ofosu-Ampofo took a unilateral decision to withdraw from the election after the shooting incident, an act he has described as a cowardice.
“Ofosu-Ampofo called me and I warned him against that decision but he didn’t listen. I was out of the country at the time but the information and facts I has received on the ground showed that we were winning the election, so I was against the decision. He also called John Mahama and the former president asked him not to do that but he also didn’t listen.
“So, you see, as a leader you need to fight in times of crisis and he (Ofosu-Ampofo) doesn’t have the courage to do so. As for me, everyone knows that when you threaten me, I will threaten you back so I have no fear and I am not timid and that is the kind of leadership you need to face the NPP in the upcoming 2-24 elections,” he said.
Speaking on Oyerepa TV on Friday, October 14, 2022, Asiedu Nketia further stated that, the decision did not only cost them the seat but also gave way for the NPP to abuse their member in the 2020 elections.
“You remember the security guys said it’s a dress rehearsal for in the 2020 they abused our men and even killed about 8 persons during the general elections. But if we had persisted and stayed through the end of the by-election, NPP wouldn’t have had the courage to do what they did in 2020, including manipulating the outcome of the elections,” he added.
Source: theGhanaianvoice.com