Former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho, says he weeps for his ‘beloved party’. The erstwhile NDC appointee expressed this concern in reaction to the uproar in some quarters of the party, following the change in its parliamentary leadership.
Touching on the change which was announced on Tuesday, the former NDC deputy scribe alleged that it was influenced by a hideous agenda of the party’s newly elected Chairman, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah.
Koku Anyidoho expressed his uncertainties and grieved for the future of the party under the chairmanship of Asiedu Nketiah, in a series of tweets on his twitter page.
Koku Anyidoho, the former Deputy General Secretary claims that he will be vindicated with time, as he adds to the grievances made by other notable party sympathizers since the change was announced by the Chairman of the party and His General Secretary.
One of such prominent critics has been the Member of Parliament for the Tamale Central Constituency, Honorable Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed. He claims the timing of the decision by the party’s hierarchy is ‘wrong’.
Ibrahim Murtala believes that he and his colleague NDC MPs are concerned and claim vividly that the outgoing crop of parliamentary leadership has been diligent in their duties.He, therefore, questioned the rationale for the change and criticized the party’s leadership for failing to consult the entire Minority Caucus before effecting the change.
“They are only taking away the most experienced leaders and bringing the less experienced ones. Nobody told them we are dissatisfied with the leadership. Who told them we are unhappy with their performance?”
Koku Anyidoho
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has defended the party’s decision to change its parliamentary leadership.
2024 General Elections Prompted A Change In NDC Leadership
Asiedu Nketiah however explained that the move is part of the party’s ‘reorganization’ for the 2024 general election. He claims that there have been a series of changes across all levels of the party towards the 2024 polls.
From branch elections, constituency elections, regional elections and national elections, Asiedu Nketiah said, it is now time to introduce new faces to the party’s frontline in Parliament, hence the change.
In his view, the Chairman of the NDC states opined that the timing is right because they started changes at the branch level where they have conducted elections in about 40,000 branches and then from there, they proceeded to the constituency level.
“We’re done largely with all the constituencies and then we’ve done regional elections and we just completed the national elections. So, the next in line is to take a look at our leadership in Parliament and that is what we’ve just done so in terms of timing, it is line with the way we are prosecuting the national reorganization”.
Asiedu Nketiah
In his defense, he added that going into the 2024 polls, issues about the economy will become very topical and therefore the need for someone who has mastery in that regard; an example could be areas of economic challenges, infrastructural and energy.
Mr. Asiedu Nketiah said that these are the basis for selecting Dr Cassiel Ato Forson to be the party’s new minority leader and other leaders to serve as supporting roles. He added that issues surrounding energy will become critical ahead of the next elections, and therefore the party’s decision to choose Dr Kofi Armah Buah as the Deputy Minority Leader.
Touching on the Deputy Minority Leader role, he further clarified that the changing of James Klutse Avedzi’s was due to the MP’s decision to exit Parliament. This was a personal decision made by the MP and as such, measures were put in place to replace him and not their own decision.
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