P.V. Juantua Boateng Dadson
A learned philosopher in AD 1624 said and I quote, “Change is not a bad thing; but your ability to manage the change matters most”.
The call for CHANGE in the rank and file of NDC started right after the 2016 general elections. Some claim that the entire executives of the party right from branches, constituencies, regional and national must [ads1]be shown the exit or they themselves must do the honorable thing by resigning or desist from contesting for party positions again.
Their sin is that they led the party to the defeat in 2016, which is very unprecedented in the annals of the history of NDC since 1992.
Honestly, can we blame a group of people in the party, national executives, founder, constituency & regional executives and our candidate, who was President for our loss?
As a reasoning party, we thought it wise to interrogate the circumstances leading to our ferocious defeat in 2016 elections. Professor Botchwey committee was put together with a stipulated terms of reference well crafted for the intended purpose.
A report was subsequently handed over to the national executives and the NEC. Then came the UNITY WALK to unite the party from grassroot though had it own positives and negatives.
Alongside, people who think have what it takes to lead the party from the branch, constituency, regional, national and including the flag bearer position started to lite their candle of hope and form their teams and camps without demanding to know what Professor Botchwey’s committee discovered or established as the cause of our defeat.
What NDC as a party has done successfully ever since is that; we have surrounded our selves with memorabilia of our defeat in 2016 elections on daily basis, gossip about those who we perceived amassed wealth by their party positions, those who diverted campaign funds, those who intentionally made money by virtue of their position in government and at the expense of the party/government( took ridiculous decisions) thus offering our opponents the ammunition to fire at us during the campaign in 2016 and drum up their crusade against us as the most corrupt government, not forgetting the cavalier attitude of some government appointees at the presidency.
Today we are preparing to contest in 2020 elections proving that all is well. My late father of the blessed memory, Mr. Thomas Kwabena Boateng once said and I quote “You can’t lie to everybody and end up lying to your good self”
If I may ask humbly, what are we doing to ourselves as a party? Do we know accounted for our defeat in 2016 empirically? What did the Professor Botchwey committee discovered or established? To served as guidelines going forward?
In our levitating state, we have embarked on registration of party membership from branch level where people were fully sponsored to become members of the party, because the sponsors have in mind to contest for various positions; so they created their own voting empire to become emperors.
In that same ill preparedness branch and constituency, elections are over with manufactured executives and same is going for our regional elections. What do we seek to achieved in the end?
I dare say we risk losing 2020 simply because we have done anything new or different from the previous.
And we cannot do things in the same way and achieved different results.
To those who have expressed interest in contesting for the flag bearer position please be wise to lead a united front to win power. I think we must reason strategically and think extremely out side the box before we can think of winning 2020 elections. We lost unprecedentedly in the Parliamentary elections, have we find out the reasons though it varies from one constituency to the other.
We will be fools to stick to we will cross when we get to the bridge attitude.