KNUST-NPP Frontliners declaration panic reaction : NDC
The Ashanti regional branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said that the recent declaration of support by some lecturers of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is a panic reaction to NDC’s pragmatic programme of attaining one million votes in the region.
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Subsequently, it has soothed the hearts of Ghanaians and party faithful that they should not panic because it was not the first time the ‘KNUST-NPP Frontliners’ had openly declared their support for the opposition NPP and presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo yet it did not favour them.
The regional NDC Secretary, Raymond Tandoh, told the Daily Graphic, ‘This rehearsed declaration only goes to confirm that the strategies being executed by the NDC team in the Ashanti Region towards attaining the one million votes are biting and significantly impacting.
“KNUST-NPP Frontliners is just a group of known NPP members since 2008 that have consistently campaigned for the opposition party without success,” he said.
Giving a background to his assertion, the NDC regional secretary alleged that during the run-up to the 2012 general election, a group calling itself Intellectual for National Development (IND) emerged and openly supported and defended Nana Akufo-Addo’s free senior high school education policy, yet it could not impact positively on the populace.
He alleged that the only difference between the IND and the KNUST-NPP was that Dr George Mainoo, who was the then its Communications Director, had quit his position and Dr Kwabena Boadu appointed to lead the group. He, therefore, said, it was the same IND which had been changed as the KNUST-NPP Frontliners.
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‘Let me state that the NDC has over the years proved to be a robust mass political party which is able to withstand any opposition even while it was in opposition,’ Mr Tandoh told the Daily Graphic.
He assured party followers that the party was working very hard, especially in the Ashanti Region, to retain President John Dramani Mahama and so there was no cause for alarm.
