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Spio Garbrah is too old to contest NDC flagbearer position – Vanderpuije
This comes as the party begins considering as to who will be able to better organize them for the 2020 elections.
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Some party stalwarts including the Ashanti Regional Minister, Alexander Ackon and Deputy Minister of Power, John Jinapor believes that John Mahama should be retained as the presidential candidate for the 2020 elections.
There are others who feel that Spio Garbrah who once contested the NDC Flagbearership slot should be given another chance to contest.
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But Nii Lante Vanderpuye who is also the Member of Parliament for Odododiodoo has argued that Dr Ekow Spio Garbrah is not the right choice as the party would have to go in for a younger person.
“Age is not on his side, it’s very important for us as a party that if were choosing a Presidential candidate we should look at who we choose. I think he’s more than 60 years.With NDC we’ll choose somebody who can be there for eight years. That’s what we’ll be looking at,” he said on Accra-based Starr FM.
Meanwhile, the NDC has unveiled a 13-member committee to investigate the party’s defeat to the New Patriotic Party in the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections.
The committee will be chaired by former finance minister Professor Kwesi Botchwey.
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The committee has also been charged to recommend the way forward for the party.
However, the founder and leader of the Glorious Word and Power Ministry International, Rev Isaac Owusu Bempah who predicted victory for the NPP has called on the NDC to dismiss their efforts and bring in another candidate to lead the party.
“I will urge the NDC to stop considering the President for 2020 because he won’t win and can never win an election again. Those campaigning for him to be brought back should stop because if they succeed in getting him lead the NDC in 2020, NDC will lose again and they will be in opposition for a long time,” he advised.
“In the run-up to the 2016 elections, I had a vision of President Mahama in chains – on his neck, legs and on his hands. The seat of the President has been turned upside down to show that it was empty and that a successor was required...so I knew the President would lose the 2016 elections and that is why I was confident about my prophecies,” the controversial pastor added.
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