Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the chairman of the National Democratic Congress, has defended the party’s decision to alter its leadership in Parliament.
He claims that the adjustment is part of the party’s reorganization effort to help it win the 2024 elections.
“We started re-organization of our structures to be able to position ourselves to fight election 2024,” he said.
“We started more than a year ago, we started at the branch level. We have since done elections in about 40, 000 branches and then from there we proceeded to the constituency level. We are done largely with all the constituencies, we have done regional elections and we just completed our national election the next is to look at our leadership in Parliament. That is what we have just done,” he said.
“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 is that the only constant thing is change. Since the environment is changing, leadership must change along with the new environment,” he said.
“We know for instance that going into election 2024, the economy is going to be the major battleground and so many of the debates will focus on the economy. So you better put your best man in the 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 informed the changes” he added.
The National Chairman of the NDC said although the party tried to have equal representation of all 16 regions, that is impossible given that there are only five positions to be filled.
He stressed that “the Change has nothing to do with the performance of the leaders at all. What it has a lot to do with is that the environment is changing, so if you are a football coach and the team you are facing and the game style they are adopting is not in keeping with the players you have put out there, you will do yourself a lot of Good.”
