Characteristic of the State sponsoring formation of the so called progressive alliance in 1992 which has dwindled with the passage of time into NDC, persons seeking the high office of Chairman of the NDC are holding on to the Public Offices they occupy at the expense of the State.
The PNDC in metamorphosing from a criminal military junta into a political family overnight used a lot of state facilities and resources to embark on their hidden agenda to perpetuate an illegality visited on Ghanaians in 1981, December 31 when the PNP government was brutally overthrown against the popular will of the people. They formed the EGLE, DPP, NCP and NDC into a fake alliance called �progressive�.
December 20 is a day many political watchers are anticipating a contest synonymous to a �clash of the titans�. It is the day the ruling National Democratic Congress is set to hold its congress to elect national officers to man the affairs of the Party for the next four years.
There are three gentlemen all seeking to unseat the incumbent Chairman who is bent on getting a renewal of mandate. So in all, it is a race among four strong men of the party with their individual strengths to display �who beats who�.
What is intriguing is why none of the four men has resigned their position in the very sensitive State institutions the president appointed them to. Mr Kofi Poturphy for example, heads the strategic National Disaster Management Organization, NADMO with all the allegations of hoarding and diverting of relief items as well as funds.
Alhaji Hudu Yahaya, whose tenure as Board Chairman as the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation, BOST was marked with several allegations of missing oil tankers on high seas is currently chairing the GRIDCO BOARD. GridCo has the responsibility of the transmission of power generated to supply electricity to our homes and work places.
Ambassador Dan Abodakpi appears to be the only person who has resigned his position as an ambassador to Malaysia. Though the only person fighting for the title with clean hands, he appears to the underdog in the race.
Dr Kwabena Adjei, the incumbent has been the Board chairman of the Ghana Education Trust Fund, GETFUND since 2009 when the NDC came into power. Dr Adjei chairs the board with responsibility to oversee prudent and proper utilisation of the funds accrued to the Trust whose releases have been in arrears of more than 3quarters.
Aside the chairmanship race which is being keenly contested, 17 more members of their Functional Executive Committee, FEC are running to be elected as vice chairpersons.
A local government expert who spoke to TNF queried why the individuals occupying public offices have not resigned their positions yet. And wondered how much of the resources available to the institutions they head have been committed to their private ambitions to become leaders in the NDC.
Already, the Women�s wing of the Party have elected their leader while the election of the Youth wing remain unclear as several allegations of malpractices and irregularities marked that election at KNUST in Kumasi where they held the youth elections.
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