[ 2012-06-18 ]

Mr Kofi Adams

Kofi Adams: Asiedu-Nketia misfired; misunderstood positive defiance
The Spokesperson for the Rawlingses, Mr Kofi Adams
has replied the General Secretary of the governing
National Democratic Congress over his positive
defiance comments, maintaining the NDC scribe
lacks an understanding of the meaning of positive
defiance.

Mr. Johnson Asiedu-Nketia at the weekend called on
party faithfuls who believe in the principles of
June 4 to positively defy any suggestion by the
former first family to vote out the NDC in the
upcoming elections, saying that recent utterances
and actions of the Rawlingses indicate they want
the party in opposition.

But Mr Kofi Adams, reacting to the comments on Joy
FM’s Super Morning Show Monday, said the NDC
General Secretary had misfired and that it was
statements such as the ones made by Mr
Asiedu-Nketia that were deepening disunity in the
party.

“…How on earth can you unite around principles and
values if you have these types of meetings going
on, and these kinds of comments and these kinds of
discussions?”

“I believe that our General Secretary has
misunderstood what positive defiance represents.
Positive defiance is asking one to decide where
the good of the country or an organization stands
tall,” he explained.

Mr Adams noted that Mr and Mrs Rawlings had not,
in the first place, asked anybody to vote for the
opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer,
Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo. What they have asked
of members and supporters of the NDC, he claimed,
is to call the current leaders of the party to
order.

“Jerry Rawlings or Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings
have not said anywhere that nobody should support
the NDC. They have said the government that has
been formed out of the NDC and some leaders of the
NDC have abandoned the values of the NDC.”

He said there was, therefore, no basis for the
General Secretary of the party to be counseling
supporters to defy Mr and Mrs Rawlings if they
asked them to vote against the party in December
this year.

Kofi Adams further stated that leaders of the NDC,
instead of sticking to the values on which the
party was formed, had deviated and were now
seeking to hide behind the principle of positive
defiance – which he explained must be used for the
good of the party and nation as a whole.

The Rawlingses will not stop criticising the
government when necessary, he insisted.

Source - MyjoyOnline

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