Majority Chief Rockson Nelson Dafaamekpor has refuted claims that NDC Nationwide Chairman Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, popularly referred to as Basic Mosquito, is secretly campaigning to turn out to be the get together’s subsequent flag bearer.
Talking on Tuesday’s PM Specific, South Dai MP requested critics to level out the Speaker’s statements declaring such ambitions.
“I believe the query individuals needs to be asking is whether or not the Speaker goes round claiming to be the usual bearer,” he requested.
Mr Nelson Dafaamekpol stated there needs to be no misconceptions as the present appreciation tour by the Chairman was not just lately began and was a part of the get together’s post-election engagement technique.
“What I do know is that he has been doing this tour since round April 2025, across the time the federal government completed appointing ministers and did native excursions,” he defined.
He stated that after the NDC returned to energy, there have been issues inside the get together that its constituency leaders and grassroots supporters weren’t being valued sufficient.
“The deficiencies of not visiting constituencies had been talked about within the nationwide government assembly and there have been complaints that the previous man (President John Mahama) got here and understood, however the get together ought to come,” he stated.
“They stated the get together had fought laborious so the get together ought to come to the bottom and present their gratitude. We’ve been in opposition for eight years.”
Dafaamekpol stated the train took time due to the size of the mobilization.
“As you realize, the logistical mobilization to go to these constituencies is not any joke. So he’s doing it methodically and I believe it is going to be over quickly,” he identified.
He rejected recommendations that the tour would give Basic Mosquito an unfair benefit over future NDC presidential candidates.
“So his marketing campaign to go to the individuals, to the constituencies, to thank get together officers and stakeholders, such because the Chief Minister and the Queen Mom, and among the organizations which have supported us, didn’t begin yesterday. So I do not know the way it suits in and displays the marketing campaign agenda as a flag,” he claimed.
The South Dai MP additionally dismissed claims that the excessive profile of the present expedition made it completely different from earlier workout routines carried out by the Speaker.
When requested if an analogous tour would happen in 2021, he replied: “Sure, we had been in opposition to it. Go examine the information.”
“We’re an opposition get together, so it was taken with no consideration.”
Nelson Dafaamekpol recalled that Basic Mosquito had visited his constituency extensively after the 2020 elections.
“He got here to my constituency. Actually, he visited three zones of my constituency. He visited Kpewe, he visited Piki, he visited Tongo and we took him to Gemeni market,” he recalled.
He stated the speaker used the tour to encourage get together supporters after the disputed 2020 election outcomes.
“He went to inform the folks that we received the election however we had been fooled, so the individuals ought to consider in us, and in 2024 he’ll lead his workforce to destroy the NPP,” Dafaamekpor stated.
“So it isn’t true that that is the primary time he is finished a thanks tour as chairman after a basic election. No.”
