Vote out all NDC National Executives – Victor Smith

09:49 - 12 May 2017

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A diplomat in the Mahama administration Victor Smith said all the current National Executives must be voted out at the party’s next congress in favour of people he described as “die-hard selfless people.”

A diplomat in the Mahama administration Victor Smith, has said that all the national executives of the opposition National Democratic Congress must be changed following the party’s defeat in the 2016 elections.

In an interview with Accra-based Citi FM, Smith said everyone from the national Chairman Kofi Poturphy, to the General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia must be voted out at the party’s next congress in favour of what Mr. Smith called new “die-hard selfless people.”

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“We should change the whole guard. We should start with some die-hard selfless people… I think he [Asiedu Nketia] has been there long enough. We should just clean the stables.”

However, Smith said the party must maintain former President John Mahama as its flagbearer for election 2020.

“If we [the NDC] want to be the ones in the driving seat in 2020, our best bet is the one we put out there already. He [Mahama] did so well but there were some hiccups and that probably led to us losing the elections.”

He said the party executives “should have helped him [Mahama] more than they did. They had the power as a political party to reign in on the President. I think the party was weak in dealing with him.”