A leading member of the opposition party National Democratic Congress (NDC), Goosie Tanoh has officially declared his intention to lead the NDC into the 2020 general elections.
After weeks of speculations of his candidature, Gossie, who is also known in real life as Augustus Obuadum Tanoh finally stormed the Adabraka Headquarters of the party to inform them of his intent.
“I believe that a renewed and revitalized NDC will have the values, the organizational potentials, and vision to lead Ghana to realize the dream of the Fourth Republic,” he told the media Thursday.
Goozie Tanoh has been primed for the presidency by the cadre movement in the opposition party. The cadres believe the NDC has veered off from the creed of its founding fathers who intended the party to be a socialist party guided by so-called principles of probity and accountability. They see Mr. Tanoh as a person of integrity who is capable of restoring those values with their concomitant populist benefits of wooing the masses.
The NDC will, on December 7, elect a flagbearer that will lead them to the 2020 general elections.
He joins a tall list which also includes former President John Mahama; former Trades Minister, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin; academic and politician, Prof. Joshua Alabi and former CEO of National Health Insurance.
Only recently, a forum organized by a group of cadres selected Mr. Tanoh as a key speaker. At that forum, he dropped the clearest hint yet, that he would run for the NDC nomination for the 2020 elections.
He will be the third or fourth aspirant from the Central region running for the NDC’s nomination.
