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[ 2014-12-22 ]
Asiedu Nketia: NDC still grappling with FONKAR,GAME divisions The reelected General Secretary of the governing
National Democratic Congress Johnson Asiedu Nketia
has said the party is still “grappling” with
the divisions that engulfed it during the 2010
midterm presidential primaries between the late
President Mills and former First lady, Nana Konadu
Agyemang Rawlings.
Nketia told delegates at the 8th Congress of the
party held in Kumasi in the Ashanti region,
Saturday December 20 that the party is
yet-to-recover from the FONKAR/GAME rivalry.
Both FONKAR- Friends of Nana Konadu Agyemang
Rawlings and GAME- Get Atta Mills endorsed-
emerged out of the ruling party to canvass votes
for either of the two candidates in an epic
midterm presidential primaries in 2010.
Deputy Ashanti regional minister Joseph Yammin had
hinted ahead of the party’s congress to elect
new national executives that several of the newly
elected regional executives were members of
FONKAR, creating the impression that the factions
still exist in the party.
Addressing delegates at the Congress, Nketia who
retained his seat with over 90 percent of the
valid vote cast said the ruling party is still
nursing wounds created by the internal rivalry
years ago.
Close to 4,000 delegates of the party participated
in the vote that saw the election of a new
national chairman, organiser among other. Source - Starrfmonline
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