NDC sacks officials for issuing Boateng with nomination forms
The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has dismissed two party officials who issued presidential nomination forms to presidential aspirant, Mr George Boateng.
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The two, who the party refused to name, were the accountant who issued the receipt for the nomination forms and the administrator who handed over the forms to Mr George Boateng.
The General Secretary of the party, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, announced the party’s decision Thursday when he presented President Mahama’s nomination forms to the Vice-President, Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur.
Accountant
He said the accountant at the party’s headquarters who had worked there for 20 years, and who issued the forms to Mr Boateng, ought to have known better.
According to the General Secretary, it is only the General Secretary who is mandated to endorse and issue presidential nomination forms.
It was, therefore, unacceptable for the accountant and the adminstrative officer to facilitate the process for the polling station youth organiser of the party at Oyarifa in Accra, Mr George Boateng, to pick up the forms.
Mr George Boateng made the headlines last week after picking nomination forms at the NDC’s headquarters to challenge President Mahama for the presidential slot of the NDC for the 2016 election.
He told journalists the president had failed the country.
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Proposal
He made a curious proposal to legalise the cultivation and exportation of Marijuana to increase foreign exchange to fast-track the country’s development.
His emergence infuriated party leaders in more ways than one.
Before today’s announcement, Mr Asiedu Nketia had promised investigations into the matter.
He said the presidential aspirant needed psychiatric examination.
Character
A deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Koku Anyidoho, said the NDC was embarrassed by the development.
He said the governing party could not have a person with the character of Mr George Boateng challenging the president to be the party’s flag bearer.
Meanwhile the Vice-President, after receiving the nomination forms for Mr Mahama, told journalists the president was ready for any internal contest.
He was sure the president would beat any contender to retain the NDC’s presidential candidacy in next year’s polls.