The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress(NDC), Samuel Ofosu- Ampofo, debunked claims he has taken decision to contest for the party’s flagbearership position in 2024.
According to him, the purported report by a leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko is an absolute fabrication.
In a statement issued on Sunday, January 17 by the National Chairman of the NDC, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo said, “My attention has been drawn to a publication trending on Ghanaweb and other social media portals that I, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, the National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, am preparing to contest for the flagbearership position of the party in readiness for the 2024 presidential elections. Nothing is further from the truth”.
The renowned politician affirmed that he’s focused on rallying behind the presidential candidate of the NDC, John Mahama amid the petition in court thus exerting and channeling all his energy on that in order for them to win.
“At the moment, together with the leadership of the party, I am focused entirely on throwing my fullest support behind His Excellency John Dramani Mahama in the presidential election petition that is being litigated in the Supreme Court. It is of the utmost importance that I spare no effort whatsoever in doing whatever is necessary to prosecute the petition to its logical conclusion.
His remarks follow a claim by the legal practitioner Gabby Otchere Darko, asserting that, “Politics. You must love it. The NDC Chairman, Ofosu Ampofo, is fully involved in court efforts to secure a rerun of last month’s presidential race between John Mahama and Jean Mensa (sorry, Akufo-Addo). Yet, who says he is not also preparing keenly to contest John Mahama as the party’s presidential candidate for 2024?”
Mr. Ampofo reiterated that, “I have no desire to challenge His Excellency John Dramani Mahama either today or tomorrow for the flagbearership of our great party.
He, therefore, call on the teeming supporters and sympathizers of the great NDC to treat the “effusions of the unruly cousin of the President with contempt”.
Read the full statement below:
IGNORE THE USELESS EFFUSIONS OF GABBY OTCHERE-DARKO ON PRESIDENTIAL AMBITION
My attention has been drawn to a publication trending on Ghanaweb and other social media portals that I, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, the National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, am preparing to contest for the flagbearership position of the party in readiness for the 2024 presidential elections. Nothing is further from the truth.
At the moment, together with the leadership of the party, I am focused entirely on throwing my fullest support behind His Excellency John Dramani Mahama in the presidential election petition that is being litigated in the Supreme Court. It is of the utmost importance that I spare no effort whatsoever in doing whatever is necessary to prosecute the petition to its logical conclusion.
In addition, I have no desire to challenge His Excellency John Dramani Mahama either today or tomorrow for the flagbearership of our great party. The times we are in demand that we deploy all our energies in order to ensure that the rigging that characterized the last presidential election is exposed and God-willing, the opportunity is granted to the voters once again to choose the right and proper person to steer the affairs of our beloved country, Ghana.
I call on the teeming supporters and sympathizers of the great NDC to treat the effusions of the unruly cousin of the President with contempt. There is no truth whatsoever in it.
ISSUED IN ACCRA THE 17TH DAY OF JANUARY, 2021.
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(HON. SAMUEL OFOSU-AMPOFO)
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN