A bigger disgrace awaits us - Namoale tells NDC

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November 10, 2017 11:39 AM

His comments come on the back of calls by the regional Chairmen of the party for former President John Dramani Mahama to lead the party into the 2020 elections.

There is a bigger disgrace in store for the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), former La-Dadekotopon MP Nii Amasah Namoale has said.

His comments come on the back of calls by the regional Chairmen of the party for former President John Dramani Mahama to lead the party into the 2020 elections.

The Regional Chairpersons who had a meeting with Mr Mahama on Thursday, November 9 in Accra urged the former president “to consider the request of teeming supporters of the NDC and Ghanaians to lead the party to the 2020 general elections.”

Many have since indicated that this endorsement gives John Mahama an edge over other contenders.

Speaking on the matter, Namoale, who recently stepped down from his party’s flagbearership race said that he believes there are plans to impose a candidate on the party for the 2020 election.

Commenting on the “endorsement” given by the regional chairmen to John Mahama, Namoale said: “They have the democratic right to go anywhere that they want to go, they have the democratic right to suggest to the former president to do a ‘thank you’ tour, they have a democratic right to call on him to come and contest 2020, that is their opinion.

"But as to whether the ‘thank you’ tour is in the Kwesi Botchwey report or not, it is the National Executive Committee or the Functional Executive Committee – the corporate NDC – that will give us a directive as to what to do and what not to do. It is not the 10 regional chairmen who are members of NEC.”

He told Accra-based Class FM that the regional chairmen “should have tabled it at NEC for NEC to tell the former president to go and do a ‘thank you’ tour. But they have come out to say it.

“So, it is their association, they have the democratic right but let me tell you something, Moro, there is a bigger disgrace waiting for us ahead. There is a bigger disgrace waiting for us. If we are so impatient, we are so bent on taking the horse to the river and forcing the horse to drink water from the river. You cannot force the horse, but there is a way you can force the horse - throw the horse into the river when it starts drowning it will drink the water.”

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