Former Consul to Dubai, Daniel Osei, has observed that the incessant tagging of party members, who disagree with the camp of former President John Mahama, is dividing the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) further, making it difficult for the party to unite.
He said recent events have shown that it is the Mahama camp, which is endangering the party since the former president’s core supporters have become intolerant of dissenting views and constructive criticisms.
Stronger Grassroots
“I don’t care who becomes our flagbearer. I don’t have a candidate and I don’t need to have a candidate to understand the value of organizing for our desired goal of victory 2020,” he said in his latest epistle as the NDC seeks to reunite after a bruising defeat in 2016.
Mr Daniel Osei said he had always stressed the need for serious grounds work and the importance of starting the processes of reorganization early, adding that selecting a flag bearer would be easy if the grassroots are already fixed.
Leadership Sabotage
The former consul claimed the attempt to commence the reorganization as soon as the NDC lost the December 7, 2016 general elections, was dashed by the national executives of the party.
“If the party executives are insisting on imposing the former president as flag bearer – FINE — why endanger the party’s prospects in the process of that agenda? Why can’t we build our party up while the former president rests and when it’s right time he announces his return? Can’t we chew gum and walk at the same time?” he wondered.
Mr. Osei observed, “Because the focus has been on engineering the return of former President Mahama, more than building the party, they see any advice not emphasizing their position as bad and must be defeated with insults and the attack dogs, even if the advice is good for their agenda in the long term. If former President Mahama becomes the flag bearer, doesn’t he stand to benefit from a stronger party if attention is paid to treating this lame horse of a party as he now describes us?”
Phantom Voters
He said, “We are not using information wisely. We are too tone deaf and focused on silly feel-good sentiments and managed to conjure up the false narrative that somehow one million NDC members didn’t vote and so they will come out and vote in 2020 and our surest bet is this person or that person. Really? I feel scandalized, folks.
“We are wasting good opportunity just sitting. We were rejected by the electorate. Period! And if we want to return to power, we better sit up. Talk to your friends, the teachers, nurses, doctors, engineers, businessmen, workers and you will find person after person who voted for Prof Mills (RIP) in 2008, supported NDC in 2012 and voted against Mahama in 2016. These people are real and we must sit up and listen to them and their concerns and organize around that from the branches up!”
Mr Daniel Osei asked, “How many NDC parliamentarians are in parliament today but JM lost in their constituencies- in the North, in Accra and elsewhere? This is information we must pay attention to. When you ask this, they retort, ‘but there are places the former president won but the parliamentary candidate lost,’ and they say it as if it’s an intelligent response.”
Imminent Disaster
According to him, disaster is awaiting the NDC in 2020 if the opposition party continues to sweep the problems that made them lose under the carpet, adding that “those who have hijacked our party don’t have a clue as to what must be done.”
Mr. Osei posited, “To the sycophants, it’s all about the money and the so-called advisers simply are clueless. We saw this movie play out in 2015-2016.”
EC Voter Register Debate
The former consul said the NDC gurus were wrong when they sided with the Electoral Commission (EC) to deny Ghanaians a new voter register and said it contributed to their massive defeat.
“Remember our insistence on no registration and the NPP wanting a totally new register? Why would we want no registration to take place? In the four years between 2012 and 2016 there was a very short limited registration prior to the assembly elections and it was hardly engaged. Did no NDC person turn 18 in that four-year period, and why wouldn’t we want to register them?” he queried.
Mr Daniel Osei noted, “In their simple-mindedness, they concluded we won with the 2012 register and should do whatever it takes to hold onto it, all the while not recognizing we were hurting ourselves.”
Lazy Thinkers
“Instead of engaging a robust registration of our people and using the information to organize our campaign, the lazy thinkers, who managed the campaign, felt it was sufficient to bully their way through with the old register,” he charged.
He said the NPP was hungry for power and prepared better to beat the NDC to its game.
“What happened to the proposed change in the election date to November? Did we not have the majority in parliament to make the change happen? It was not done because the original intention was just not holding – grounds were not good and grounds never got good because we refused to do the hard work to help make grounds good, and today, grounds STILL no good,” Mr Osei observed.
Source: Daily Guide
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Thanks Mr. Osei... NDC never learns, the NPP used the election petition as the basis for learning new ways of marketing their party. They hit hard where NDC was flopping and that did the trick. Dr, Bawumia was the destructive force against NDC because anytime he raised issues about the economy, the NDC chose to lambaste him instead of dealing with the real issues. Today, he has introduced the paperless system at the port and it is working. He is rolling out various economic recovery programs and soon will yield results. The party has had the Sole Prosecutor bill passed and that is going to pin ***barred word*** people to the ground. Free SHS is here to help the poor who could not afford to take their kids to school so what message will the NDC tell Ghanaians. If they play the corruption trumpet, they will fail miserably. After all the 'WISE' and thirty eight year experience in electioneering man ASIEDU NKETIA only managed less than 51% of votes for them in 2008, 50.7% for the party in 2012 even with all the party arsenals and rigging machinery and has sunk them to the abyss in 2016 with a paltry 44.3%. This is total rejection. What else has he and his team of Comfortable Leaders got to offer the party this time?
I am not NDC, in my opinion, this is one of the wisest piece i have read from an NDC man. Mr Osei you are right, but hear this, NDC NEVER won the 2012 elections.It was handed to them by the supreme court and that created the biggest complacency for the part. The biggest of their mistake was to appoint Mrs Osei with the aim repeating the 2012 phenomenon "go to court", all their hopes was on rigging but NPP is smart and God cannot be mocked.
Mr Daniel Osei, you are just in the wrong party like the president reminded Afotey Agbo. Your party is full of fo*ls who like food and akpeteshie more than thinking. How on earth can the whole executives be wrong in anything they do but they think they are the wisest people in Ghana, whenever Asiedu Nketiah speaks trash comes out but your people clap for him that general mosquito is wise oooo ! and such are the people in your party and ndc take them all as representing Ghanaians so ndc will rot in opposition through the voting of he discerning Ghanaians. Ndc has nothing to tell the people apart from their propaganda of eny3 yie, eny3 sustainable and the good people of Ghana who are discerning knows the government is doing well and needs time to redress what ndc destroyed so they are patient with high hopes and praying hard for the President and his team. There is no way ndc will come back in 2020 you have no legacy to sell and 64% of the people want the past ndc to be prosecuted and jailed. The social media is full of anti- ndc so who are going to vote for you? those you are telling it is not tight for their kids to ho o SHS or who? ndc yamutu!
Reason why NPP went to the Supreme Court in 2012.
The lazzy thinkers and the gr33dy sycophanticcc baastardss will soon label you as a mol3
Intelligent piece. Let those who have ears listen. Unfortunately, the dumbbb outnumbers the intelligents in the NDC. Let me sound a note of warning to our leaders in the NDC that we the grassroots and for that matter members of the party will never forgive them after 2020 if we still find ourselves in opposition. In 2016 you deceived us with "We're in a comfortable lead" a phrase the NPP uses anytime the opportunity presents itself to them. Am just waiting for the next phrase the leaders of NDC will coin out after 2020