A report is emerging about the National Democratic Congress (NDC) having decided to unveil a document that is expected ‘to adequately articulate and help in addressing’ the concerns the main opposition party has been expressing in respect of the 2020 presidential elections.
The report intriguingly comes in the wake of hints about the leadership of the NDC, which took the party to the last elections, facing eviction from the younger, clearly agitated, third generation of party activists.
The NDC reform report, which is expected to be made public within the coming weeks, according to Alex Segbefia, will propose sweeping reforms which the party believes all political stakeholders would endorse.
According to the leading NDC member and former Health Minister, the need for that document has become imperative as part of the forward march of the party, probably against the background of the party’s post-election reports that get shelved. One can cite the Yao Obed Asamoah and Kwesi Botchwey reports.
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We are sure that most civil society actors and democrats, academia, traditional and religious leaders would be enthused about the decision by the NDC to come out with such a report. This is in the light of the party’s unending gripe with the Electoral Commission and, particularly, the Commissioner whom it has personally attacked since 2017.
That document is also very welcome because it will excite interest across the entire political spectrum on accounts of the teeming, but uncoordinated and undocumented, complaints the NDC national leadership and political communicators have been making since they lost the 2020 presidential election.
Another reason why we believe the document is necessary is that without any chronicled excuse and explanation, the NDC team on the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) decided to boycott IPAC meetings ahead of the 2020 general elections and even into 2021 when IPAC was due, by its own processes, to review work on the previous elections.
That is aside of questions that ordinary party members are asking without any clear answers from the leadership who have made them to believe all along that the NDC won the 2020 presidential election and that the Electoral Commissioner, Jean Adukwei Mensa, simply short-changed then presidential candidate John Dramani Mahama.
Finally, the document will indicate how credible the current leaders of the NDC have been in helping manage Ghana’s elections, and also how sincere they have been to their 2020 flagbearer and the party whose interests they were supposed to protect in the lead up to the 2020 general elections.
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