NDC must focus on delivering promises, not power struggles – Fifi Kwetey
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, has criticised early discussions about party members expressing interest in future presidential ambitions, describing such conversations as disrespectful to the party and to President John Dramani Mahama.
Speaking on Channel One TV’s Face to Face programme on Tuesday, December 16, Mr Kwetey said talk of presidential bids, especially within the first year of assuming office, is premature and distracts from the party’s responsibility to govern.
“Especially in the first year after you have won power, any conversation regarding interest in running for power, I find it personally an insult to the NDC as a whole, an insult even to President Mahama because we have barely come into office,” he stated.
Mr Kwetey recalled the eight years the NDC spent in opposition and stressed the need to focus on delivering on campaign promises now that the party is back in government. He noted that the administration is still in the early stages of implementing its commitments to the Ghanaian people and to party supporters.
“We spent eight years in opposition, made promises to people, and we have taken over power. The promises that we made to the country, we are now implementing them. There are promises we made to our own political people, that is, people who have worked for us. We have not even come to 10 or 20 percent of our accomplishments,” Kwetey added.
According to him, the party’s immediate priority should be to support the government to succeed, ensure accountability among ministers and chief executives, and maintain discipline within the party, rather than engage in succession debates.
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