Dennis Miracles Aboazi, Director of Communications for Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s marketing campaign staff, stated the Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC) is prone to expertise its fiercest intra-party wrestle in its historical past as succession politics begins to emerge throughout the ruling celebration.
He stated the NDC was getting into unfamiliar political territory because it steadily ready for a future past the management of President John Dramani Mahama.
stated in an interview with Pleasure FM prime tales On Monday, Might 25, Mr. Aboazi stated the NDC has traditionally managed inner dissent as a result of it has all the time had a powerful chief and the celebration has rallied round that chief.
“The NDC is principally experiencing what all political events are experiencing in multi-party democracies, not solely in Ghana however elsewhere,” he stated.
He defined that from the period of former President Jerry John Rawlings to the management of late President John Evans Atta Mills after which to that of President Mahama, the celebration maintained a transparent line of management that helped include tensions throughout the celebration.
He stated even main controversies throughout the celebration, such because the uproar over former First Girl Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, didn’t destabilize the NDC considerably because the celebration nonetheless had a acknowledged chief.
Nevertheless, Mr Aboazi maintained that the present scenario is completely different as President Mahama is extensively anticipated to serve his ultimate time period.
“Nobody within the NDC will care a lot about what President Mahama says within the coming months, as a result of, as is commonly the case in any democracy, a president who leaves workplace and by no means contests elections once more turns into a lame duck,” he stated.
He added that the ruling celebration wants to simply accept future political realities and put together for intense intra-party competitors.
“What the NDC has to do is settle for the present actuality and permit inner competitors to develop naturally. In any other case, we’ll witness the fiercest inner competitors within the historical past of the celebration,” he confused.
Mr. Aboazi additional claimed that early indicators of inner battle throughout the ruling celebration have already begun to emerge. “We’re already witnessing celebration members exchanging gunfire, however the actual competitors has not even begun but,” he added.
A spokesperson for Bawumia’s camp additionally criticized the ruling celebration, saying he had no sympathy for the difficulties throughout the NDC.
“The NDC clearly poses a risk to this nation, so I don’t want them luck,” he stated.
Nonetheless, Aboagye maintained that such inner competitors is a part of democratic politics and stated the NDC wants to organize for the challenges forward.
Concerning the electoral prospects of the New Patriotic Social gathering (NPP), he stated the celebration’s probabilities within the subsequent election will rely not on the destiny of the NDC however on the imaginative and prescient and concepts that Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia presents to Ghanaians.
