25 Years of NDC: Mirroring the past into the future - Strong tradition

Strong tradition

When the founder said at the Ashaiman rally that the NDC had a strong tradition and the capacity to win one election after another, he knew what he was talking about.

The best way forward is not for any group within the party to think that they can rubbish the history of the NDC and also rubbish the relevance of the old guards.

The renaissance and re-imaging of the NDC must be led by thoroughbred and committed ‘soldiers’ who understand the party’s “Art of War” in order to execute the battle ahead with military precision.

As a party born out of a revolution which resulted in a class struggle that sought to give “power to the people” as well as spread egalitarianism, NEVER AGAIN should the party be hijacked by persons who owe no allegiance to the tradition and philosophy of the NDC.

As Comrade Alban Bagbin, the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, said during his delivery at the panel discussion that “we must not allow strangers into our bedroom” because it does not make any sense to allow strangers into our bedroom – especially when the strangers kicked us out of the bed and we ended up sleeping on the bare floor.

Communication policy

Since the party now has a solid communications policy that will guide all activities going into the future, all the nebulous splinter groups that operated outside the party’s structures will no longer have room to operate.

As the party begins its restructuring right from the base, it is expected that true loyalists will move to their branches and participate in the reorganisation.

The task ahead of the NDC by way of restructuring and positioning itself for victory in 2020 is very achievable and doable but as the founder told us at the Ashaiman rally, “… Unity must be pursued with sincerity and integrity” .

To quote the founder again; “Unity will only come if it is not done in a monkey dey work baboon dey chop manner”. The NDC is coming back in 2020 and NEVER AGAIN shall we repeat the mistakes of the past.

- The Writer is a Deputy General Secretary of the NDC