Asiedu Nketia explains change in of NDC’s parliamentary leadership
Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia has justified the change in leadership of the party at parliament.
According to him the change forms part of the reorganization process to help the party capture political power come 2024 elections.
“We started re-organization of our structures to be able to position ourselves to fight election 2024,” he said.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Joy News’ Blessed Sogah, he said the move forms part of a nationwide restructuring process the of the party was undertaking.
“We started more than a year ago, we stated at the branch level we have since done elections in about 40, 000 branches and then from there we proceeded constituency level we have done largely with all the constituencies, we have done regional elections and we just completed our national election and the next is to look at our leadership in parliament that is what we have just done,” he said.
Touching on the timing of the party’s decision and it intended effect, the Chairman stressed that the timing was in line with plans to fully prepare the country for the race ahead.
“In terms of timing it’s in line with the way we are prosecuting the national reorganization ,in terms of why what it tells you that the only constant thing is change since the environment is changing leadership must change along the new environment,” he said.
On what informed his new leadership, Mr Nketia said as the days of the elections get closer, the debates on the floor of parliament will change to economy, infrastructure and energy hence it was important they[ NDC] put the best in the field to properly argue their stance.
“We know for instance that going into election 2024 the economy is going to be the major battle ground and so many of the debates will focus in the economy so you better must your best man in economy forward that is what we have done.
“We also looked at energy you know the petroleum and electricity challenges so we needed to settle on Kofi Armah Buah our former minister to be the Deputy Minority Leader
“The other area is infrastructure , Kwame Agbodza being our man in infrastructure should play a key role that generally is what in informed the changes” he added.
Source: Ghana News
