There was tight security at the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) National Executive Council (NEC) meeting at the party’s plush office complex at Adabraka, Accra, on Thursday.
The party introduced strict security measures for members attending the meeting, because it did not want any member to leak information from the very important meeting, which took a decision on its timetable for electing officers at the various levels.
Thorough Search
According to a source at the party’s headquarters, the NEC members were subjected to thorough search at the entrance, to the embarrassment of some of them.
Unconfirmed report says NDC stalwart, Ato Ahwoi, who could not stand it, allegedly walked out in anger.
Before the meeting started, the party’s security detail reportedly prevented visitors from entering the premises and all NEC members were not allowed to enter with their mobile phones or any other gadgets.
They were then said to have been screened with metal detectors, in spite of vehement protests by some of the committee members.
The party’s leadership had been incensed following the recent leakage of the report of the Professor Kwesi Botchwey Committee that investigated why the NDC embarrassingly lost the December 7, 2016 general elections.
The 65-page Executive Summary of the 455-page report, which the NDC is keeping like a state secret, was leaked to the media, forcing some of the executives to attempt to play down on the significance of the contents of the report, albeit unsuccessfully. Daily Guide will resume the publication of the report next week.
Presidential Support
According to the report, John Dramani Mahama’s presidency schemed for Kofi Portuphy and Kofi Adams to become National Chairman and National Organizer respectively of the NDC – a factor the 13-member Prof Kwesi Botchwey committee report claims contributed to the disastrous defeat of the party.
Immediately that was done, the party’s machinery collapsed and never recovered, according to the executive summary of the report.
Sycophantic Executives
The report says with the election of the two leading officers, the party’s hierarchy became sycophants and did the bidding of the presidency instead of concentrating on how it would remain in office.
“Kofi Adams and Kofi Portuphy were beneficiaries of the presidency machinations during the Kumasi Congress to elect them,” the report reveals on Page 27.
It adds on page 28 that “after the party’s congress in Kumasi, the party’s hierarchy collapsed,” saying, “party hierarchy became sycophantic in its relationship with the government.”
Kofi Adams unseated incumbent Yaw Boateng Gyan as National Organizer while Mr Portuphy removed then Chairman Dr. Kwabena Adjei aka Wayo Wayo or cat hunter, from office in an acrimonious congress of the party held in Kumasi in December, 2014.
Stolen Party Cash
The report recounts instances where some greedy party executives put in-charge of Mahama’s second term bid, stole campaign cash and denied the NDC foot soldiers their share of the cake.
According to the report, President Mahama let himself down with his attitude towards the campaign, saying, “John Mahama lost the elections and not the NDC.
“President Mahama ignored the Akuse strategy. It included no flamboyant campaign, no amorphous group etc.”
The report revealed that then President Mahama, seeking re-election, carried himself like a ‘movie star’ and surrounded himself with aides who were intolerant to dissenting views.
Disastrous Solomon Nkansah
The report also asserts that the reign of Solomon Nkansah as the Communications Officer of the party was disastrous.
Mr Solomon Nkansah was the National Propaganda Secretary before the NDC turned the propaganda office into communication when the party moved into its $20 million office complex which the top hierarchy vehemently denied owning in 2014.
“Solomon Nkansah as Communications Director was a disaster,” the report claims on Page 28.
Party Disconnection
According to the report, there was “disconnection between the government and the party, and also there was “disconnection between the party and the grassroots.”
The report says there were palpable divisions in the party and cited Afram Plains in the Eastern Region as typical example.
It points out that the 13-member committee heard how the party’s hierarchy ignored warnings that the Lawra seat in the Upper West Region and other constituencies were falling into the hands of the opposition, but nobody did anything about it.
Greed & Selfishness
“NDC was its own enemy. Greedy, selfish, dismissive, arrogance of power,” were the party’s undoing according to the report on Page 27.
Source: Daily Guide
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The party of ***barred word***. For a long time, they all denied that NDC, as a Party, did not own that building, the denial stemming, apparently, from their reluctance in releasing the source of funding for the structure. It is, however, no secret that the Mahama Govt had been suspected to have built it for the party, with State resources. Otherwise, how could they have built it, given the greedy nature of the leaders of the party? It is unfortunate, indeed, that the top hierarchy of the NDC, as well as their followers, know that the only way the NDC can win any elections in Ghana is by rigging and, believe me, the NPP Gurus gave learnt bitter lessons from the last two or three national elections, during which the NDC virtually hijacked the results. This will never happen again, under the current Government's watch. It is funny tgat they are blaming their last loss on Kofi Adams and others. The e tire party had, instead, lost their ability and capacity to stealtge last elections, given the excellent monitoring systems the NPP gurus a nbd strategists put in place to counter any planned nefarious, guerrilla tactics by Mahama and die-hard opportunists and greedy no-gooders. Their penchant for stealing State resources to enhance their personal financial resources should be toned down completely and concentrate on how the nation could be moved forward, via concrete developments, social, economic and otherwise.
NDC Executives, and for that matter NDC itself DO NOT KNOW the reason that led them to loose the Election. They will NEVER know the reason of which led them lost HEAVILY which has NOT happened anywhere in the Globe (World). If someone tell them the REAL REASONS they will NEVER accept. This will let them stay in the OPPOSITION for some years coming. Now we are having MORE SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS. Ghanaians will EVER remember that when NDC told Ghanaians that they will make NHIS payment once and for all, They RATHER collapsed the Scheme when they came to power.
Why shdnt NDG seize all gadgets including mobile phones because they are aware of what they did to NPP NEC but for God intervention would have distabilized NPP completely. The used paid agents among the NPP executives including key members like Afoko and untouchable Kwabena Agyepong to feed them with information from party meetings. Now u fear? Nemesis is at work.
things will come out
Mr. Rawlings this is an opportunity for you to own your party or you're DONE.Please don't allow these executives to stay again lets get them out including the former PRESIDENT.MONEY CAN'T WIN YOU POWER NDC
Daily guide and its mischief. when will it stop
He knows the reason why he went out, Where having bad intention of what. Can he make calls during the meeting?
Who cares? These NDC cr!m!nals have no place in our national discourse...... They must tell us how they found the money to put up a $20m building.
When a gang of ***barred word*** cannot trust each other this is what they resort to. This country should never be given to such to run.
that's a nice decision.information management is very important,keep it up NDC