General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has revealed that he will accept a call-up to become the running mate of John Dramani Mahama, former president and flagbearer of the 2020 presidential elections.
Speaking on United Televisions morning show today, General Mosquito said if the party thinks he is the right person, he will accept the responsibility.
Throwing more light on the readiness of his party’s manifesto which is called ‘The People’s Manifesto’, he said that the party is currently done with the basic framework of the manifesto seeking to add the inputs of various component groups in the country. According to him, they recently met with the leadership of the church of Pentecost to engage them on some issues they believe are relevant to the policy document. Some of the issues they looked at included the fate of mission schools in Ghana, Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Regulation of churches and other religious groups. Other issues he says they have worked on include current new voters’ registration which his party is against as well as meeting leadership of the Trades Union Congress (TUC)
Debunking what some have described as the party’s lack of policies thus having to go to people to seek advice, he said that the NDC is in no way perturbed by that. “They should continue. We are not perturbed because the power we sought for is with the people(citizenry) and we are all asking for some”.
He went on to say that their manifesto us influenced mainly by the inputs of citizens gathered from the various means of personal engagement together with the flag bearer’s introspection of lessons so far and the Kwesi Botchway report.
“There’s the need to continuously take the insight of people even after voting. Wisdom does not go to reside in one person’s (referring to an elected president) head after voting. There’s the need for continuous engagement” he added.
The next stage, they were entering with consultations for the ‘People’s Manifesto’ was to engage the general public through Town Hall Meetings to seek the opinions of the general public.
