Volta Region NDC caucus revitalises constituencies

The Volta Region Caucus of the Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Parliament has begun interactions with constituencies in the region to brace itself up for activities to reorganise the party.

The caucus, led by  the Deputy Minority Leader and Member of Parliament for Ketu North, Mr James Klutse Avedzi, said the caucus had been divided into four groups who visited 18 out of the 26 constituencies in the region from April 19 to April 21.

Mr Avedzi’s group visited Akan, Buem, Biakoye and Ketu North constituencies.

Members of Parliament

In all the constituencies visited, the outcome was positive as people expressed happiness that the Members of Parliament (MPs), now on recess, had taken personal interest in the affairs of the constituencies.

“They expressed happiness and were very grateful to the caucus for the tour to make the party bounce back to victory in the next election,” Mr Avedzi said.

 In an interview with journalists at Parliament House, Mr Avedzi said the NDC Minority Caucus would ensure that the party rebounced and worked itself to victory in the next election.

“We know very much that we will come back to power in 2020 but that has to start with internal re-organisation,” he noted.

He said members were awaiting the outcome of the Kwesi Botchwey Committee and expressed the hope that everyone would agree with decisions that would be taken.

“All is not lost because we could not make it as expected in 2016. We have hope and we are re-energising the party, starting with the Volta Region which is described as the World Bank of the NDC,” he mentioned.

Mr Avedzi said the leadership of the NDC had proposed early elections at the branch level where nine executive members would be elected in each branch.

“For a party to win elections, the branch must be very strong,” Mr Avedzi said, adding that there were 29,000 branches in Ghana where the party needed to mobilise effectively for victory.

Communications

He said nominations would open in July for two weeks for the nine positions, made up of chairman, vice chairman, secretary, organiser, women’s organiser, youth organiser, treasurer, communications officer and one person who would be a member, to be contested for.

The election of these officers will be supervised by the constituency executive members to ensure that “true members” and qualified persons are elected at the branch levels.

They will be vetted and cleared after which a date will be fixed, somewhere in October.