[ 2011-04-14 ]

Ade Coker, Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the NDC

NDC Congress: Greater Accra branch endorses Mills
The Greater Accra Regional Branch of the National
Democratic Congress (NDC) has joined the recent
spate of presidential aspirant endorsements,
declaring their support for President Mills ahead
of the party’s July 8 Delegates Congress.

Regional Chairman of the party, Ade Coker told Joy
News’s Dzifa Bampoh, the executives decided to
throw their weights behind the president in order
to ensure that he completes his Better Ghana
agenda.

He said “we came this morning to look at the
state of affairs of the party and then to look at
the way forward, and the members here passed a
declaration that they are supporting the
candidature of President Evans Atta Mills for the
2012 elections and that is exactly what the people
have said.”

Ade Coker refuted suggestions that some party
executives like himself who are close to the
Rawlingses seem to have deserted them, stressing
that "the voice of the people say that this is
where they want the party to go.”

He explained that the party delegates believe it
is unwise to change a President midstream because
history clearly shows that such a strategy will
backfire.

He recounted how former United State of
America’s Democratic Party, lost elections on
two occasions when their sitting presidents, Jimmy
Carter and J.F. Kennedy were changed by the party
prior to elections.

“We feel that the President is doing a good
job… We feel that at the end of the day the
Better Ghana agenda he promised the people at the
last polls will be achieved by him and we feel we
need to give him the support and the concentration
for him to achieve the Better Ghana agenda,” Mr
Coker insisted.


Endorsements here, endorsements there

It seems the support being shown for the
candidature of President Mills and his foremost
challenger, Mrs Rawlings, will not abate any time
soon.

A group calling itself the Volta Youth League has
also thrown its weight behind the President with
the explanation that “President Mills has
already been marketed over the years. He has been
battle-tested coming from behind in the first
round of the 2008 election to beat Nana Akuffo
Addo, the candidate of the NPP even with their
rigging,” according to a statement it released.

National Coordinator of the group Del Nyamador
says the former first couple have served the
nation for nearly two decades and therefore should
allow other competent people to lead the party.

Meanwhile executives of the Upper West regional
branch of the party have also declared support for
President Mills.

Speaking to Joy News, the Regional Secretary of
the party Eric Dakora said “the devil you know
is better than the angel you don’t know."

He said "the president, withing two and half year
has been able to bring development to the people
of the Upper West Region… It is against this
backdrop that we believe that we need to give him
a second chance to continue with his developmental
agenda.”

He appealed to other party members who intend to
challenge the president to wait for their turn
after the president's second term.

Joy News correspondent Elton John Brobbey reports
that the former first lady is not being left out
of the endorsement galore.

Folks in her hometown, Mpobi in the Ashanti
region, are said to be rooting for her.

Elton John Brobbey reports however that a cousin
of Mrs Rawlings, Akwasi Asare wished she will not
challenge President Mills but will nonetheless
support her candidature once she has declared her
intentions.

Source - MyjoyOnline

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