The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has called on the Minister for Regional Reorganization and Development, Dan Kwaku Botwe, to direct his advice on the December 17 referendum to the President.
The Minister has called for the cancellation of the December 17 referendum which is to decide whether political parties should sponsor candidates in district level elections.
“People are saying it should postponed and I’m saying why postpone, it should be withdrawn. Why should we spend money on referendum when there are rains and roads and we cannot make roads? Why should we waste so much money on that?
“It is not a national [priority],” Mr Botwe is quoted as saying. “They should leave it since we are reducing cost. Nothing will change if we postpone it.”
Speaking in an interview with Onua FM’s Yen Sempa hosted by Nana Yaw Opare on Friday, the NDC scribe said: “Dan Botwe is an NPP person so he should advise the President to abolish it”.
“He should liaise with [the government] to re-call the referendum”.
Mr. Asiedu Nketia said “it’s either Ghanaians vote No or the government withdraw it for us to deliberate more on the issue”.
Source: 3news.com
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Why should the referendum be postponed? When the time comes, you either vote Yes or No. No matter the length of time for education that the EC will give, there will still be voters for yes, and voters for no. So it is better for the EC to go ahead and carry on with the referendum, come Dec 17.
If we really want to develop then we must get rid of all the idiotsss in our politics. Someone like Asiedu Nketia is too comical for a leader.
Sometimes I wonder why people like Asiedu are not in jail. Ghana will never know peace and prosperity until we started jailing leaders who comes to office and suddenly amass wealth like Asiedu Nketia, John mahama, JJ Rawlings, kufuor and all those who keep steeling from us and continue to make noise