NDC Throws Out Okudzeto-Ablakwa's Announcement! --As It Denies Settling On Timelines For Presidential And Parliamentary Primaries
Speaking in an interview on the Kumasi-based Oyerepa TV Kwesi Parker-Wilson, Mr Okudzeto Ablakwa has revealed that the National Democratic Congress will go to the polls in March this year (2023) to elect its flagbearer for the 2024 elections.
Freeman Koryekpor 
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has denied wide publicized pronouncement attributed to the NDC Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu Constituency in the Volta Region, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa that the party has fixed the date for the Presidential and parliamentary Primaries.
Speaking in an interview on the Kumasi-based Oyerepa TV Kwesi Parker-Wilson, Mr Okudzeto Ablakwa has revealed that the National Democratic Congress will go to the polls in March this year (2023) to elect its flagbearer for the 2024 elections.
According to him, “the functional executive committee (FEC) and the National Executive Council (NEC) will meet and agree with the publication of the timetable for the election of the flagbearer”.
“In March we are going for an election. An election to choose the flagbearer after the flagbearer is elected, he has to choose his running mate, but let me be clear here, the time timetable isn’t out yet, but these are the discussions going on behind the scene.”
Mr. Ablakwa who is convinced former President John Mahama will secure 95 percent of the valid vote cast further argued that, the election of the flagbearer should have taken place on December 7. 2022, a delay he believes is a breach of the party’s constitution.
“Remember that, our constitution says when we are in opposition we must elect our flagbearer 2 years before the main election, so technically speaking we are late, we should’ve done this election on December 7, 2022… For this reason, I don’t expect it to go beyond March,” he told the morning show host of Kumasi-based Oyerepa TV Kwesi Parker-Wilson.
But in quick response to set the record straight on the matter, the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Mr Fiifi Fiavi Kwetey has dismissed media reports indicating that the party will hold its presidential and parliamentary primaries on Saturday, May 6, 2023.
A timetable released to the media after the party’s Functional and National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on Thursday stated that both Presidential and Parliamentary primaries will take place concurrently on May 6, 2023.
But in an interview with Citi News, the General Secretary of the NDC said the party will officially communicate the agreed dates for the presidential and parliamentary primaries to the public in due time.
“We will be coming out with a formal announcement in due time. Disregard everything until my office comes out with a formal announcement. So everything that you see disregard until an official communication is out,” Mr Kwetey said.
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Meanwhile, National Chairman of the NDC Johnson Asiedu Nketiah and Fifi Kwetey will lead a team of National Executives and former National executives to thank the Lord for a successful Congress.
The thanksgiving will take place at the Perez Chapel at Dzowulu Junction on Sunday, January 8, 2023.
Mr Asiedu Nketiah also stated that the party’s victory in the 2024 general elections is a collective effort.
He said all aspirants who lost in the national, regional, constituency and branch elections will be given a role to play in a bid for the party to win the 2024 elections.
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Addressing the Muslim community at the National Mosque at Kanda during a thanksgiving and prayer ceremony, Mr. Asiedu Nketiah said the NDC is poised to change the economic situation of the country.
“We are begging God to help us have the patience to help the leadership do a total deployment of all the members of NDC so that we all have roles to secure power in 2024. The deployment is going to be total. Everybody in NDC will have a role to play so that we can march towards a common objective.”
