Following the announcement that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is set to announce the running mate for its flag bearer, John Damani Mahama ahead of the 2020 elections in May, Tv broadcaster, Paul Adom-Otchere has actually hinted that the person to be called comes from the Ashanti Area.
According to Paul Adom-Otchere, after numerous meetings in between the NDC’s flagbearer and the creator of the party, Jerry John Rawlings, it has been decided that somebody who comes from the Ashanti region would be picked.
This plan, Paul A believes, when adhered will garner the assistance of the founder in addition to assistance in the project towards the elections.
“We suspect that if J.J Rawlings is thinking about a running mate for John Mahama, giving that John Mahama comes from the North and he’s thinking about a running mate from the south, we think JJ will point him…directly to the Ashanti Region,” he said on his TV show Good Evening Ghana.
He asserted that the reason for the delay in the announcement of Mahama’s running mate was because both Mahama and Rawlings were in talks to select the ‘right’ person from the Ashanti region with integrity.
Here is the video of our editorial updating the race for the NDC running mate. The Editorial focuses on the role to be attributed to JJ Rawlings and mentions the suitability or otherwise of Dr Rawlings. The race is in the home stretch as the final list goes before the NDC council of elders. See video…24mins long. Also availabe on Youtube channel "Paul Adom Otchere"
Posted by Good Evening Ghana Official on Tuesday, April 28, 2020
“We think John Mahama is having conversations with Rawlings and the conversations have not ended conclusively and that is why this conversation has delayed. We think that what is conclusive about their conversation is that they’ll go to the Ashanti region, and the criteria that Rawlings has put on the table for the running mate that he would support is a criterion called integrity.”
Meanwhile, on the same show, Paul Adom-Otchere, opined that Prof. Kwesi Botchwey’s likely appointment as John Mahama’s running mate will not please the founder of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) because of some fractious relationship in between Rawlings and prof. Botchwey.
According to Adom-Otchere, if John Mahama is to pick someone who will get the true blessing of Rawlings, then the previous Financing Minister, Prof. Botchwey must not be his option else Rawlings – as Chairman for the party’s Council of Elders – will oppose it.
