Former Health Minister and Ghana’s Ambassador to Cuba, Prof. Kwaku Danso Boafo has been selected by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to lead other members to prepare a new manifesto for the party ahead of the 2020 general election.
The committee’s work, when completed, is expected to be reviewed by veterans of the opposition party to be led by Professor Kwamena Ahwoi.
The committee’s work, after its acceptance, will be communicated to the general public by National Communications Officer Sammy Gyamfi and Director of Communications Kakra Essmuah.
Inaugurating the committee at the party’s headquarters on Wednesday, NDC flagbearer for election 2020, John Dramani Mahama advised the committee to consult the policy working groups as the party gears up to save Ghanaians from the party describes as ‘hardships under the Akufo-Addo led administration.’
The inauguration of the manifesto committee wraps up wide stakeholder consultation embarked upon by Mr. Mahama, the former president, and party’s presidential candidate.
The former president has already hinted the manifesto will be a “bottom-up” approach, which is quite different from previous ones.
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The committee will be chaired by a former Minister of Health, Professor Kwaku Danso Boafo and members of the committee include Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, a Deputy General Secretary, Peter Boamah Otokunor, and Dr. William Ahadzie, Rector of the Ghana Institute of Social Democracy, the party’s ideological institute.
Others are presidential aspirants in the recent NDC primaries; Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah and Augustus Goosie Tanoh. Former Gender Minister, Nana Oye Lithur, former Education Minister, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Alex Mould and Sam P. Yalley.
The rest are Dr. Rashid Haruna, Sebastien Dery, Napoleon Kpoh, Fiifi Opoku, Benedicta Lassi, Dr. Alhassan Yakubu, Michael Abbey, Mavis Ama Frimpong, and Professor Asiamah.
These persons, the party noted will be joined by a representative from the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) and one other.
National Chairman of the NDC, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, who inaugurated the committee, disclosed that those persons will be brought on board once consultations are done.
He said the party aims at designing a manifesto “from the people, by the people, and for the people.”
