Nationwide Meeting Majority Chief Mahama Ayariga mentioned the weird act of the Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC) to cede energy after shedding the 2000 elections demonstrated the democratic objective of agreeing to the presidential time period enshrined within the 1992 Structure.
He asserted that the NDC’s uncommon transfer as a political get together to relinquish energy after its defeat within the 2000 elections was what sowed the seeds of democracy within the nation.
“Folks had been questioning, would he (President Jerry John Rawlings) go? Or not?”
Even when he mentioned he was going, they did not imagine he was going. Even when he mentioned that the NDC would relinquish energy if we misplaced the election, they didn’t imagine that we might relinquish energy. ”
Talking on the NDC’s thirty fourth anniversary and flag hoisting ceremony on the get together headquarters in Accra final Wednesday, Ayariga mentioned Ghanaians had already skilled good governance beneath the Transitional Nationwide Protection Council (PNDC), however the NDC acknowledged that the nation wanted to be democratized.
“When it comes to establishing democracy and deepening democracy, I’m satisfied that the get together has already achieved its targets. Agreeing to restrict the time period of presidency within the structure was a radical choice,” he mentioned.
“Then return into the political wilderness, and as an alternative of disintegrating, reorganize and are available again as a political power.
To take again energy.
That is it.
This institution of democracy is really the results of the historical past and success story of the NDC,” Ayariga added.
authorities management
The bulk chief mentioned that after efficiently establishing and deepening nationwide democracy, the NDC’s subsequent main challenge have to be to discover a approach to “management the federal government” in order that the get together doesn’t lose energy once more.
The get together mentioned it was fashioned to advertise tasks that guarantee good governance beneath democratic establishments.
“A staff targeted on constructing establishments mustn’t ever be misplaced on us as a political get together.
This get together was fashioned to advertise the challenge of making certain good governance beneath democratic establishments.
So this turned the target of the get together,” he mentioned.
Ayariga urged the get together management to “assume somewhat extra in order that once we kind a authorities, we are able to discover a approach to management it successfully in order that we by no means lose energy once more.”
Remember June 4th
He known as on all NDC leaders to recollect the origins of the get together.
“If we all the time keep in mind that the rationale we’re sitting the place we’re is to proceed to serve the pursuits of the frequent man, we’ll by no means lose energy once more.
“On the root of each motion we undertake as leaders have to be odd individuals, odd human beings,” he mentioned.
