In a statement released on Saturday, January 28, 2023, the party’s Council of Elders cautioned the party’s disgruntled members, MPs, and party leadership to hold off on making any additional public statements.
The National Democratic Congress is arguing because the outgoing Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, has been silent on his reshuffle, according to Larry Dogbe, Editor of the Herald Newspaper (NDC).
He believes Mr. Iddrisu has the solution to reconciling the differences between MPs and other party members.
Mr. Dogbe feels that Haruna’s silence at this moment is neither “dignifying” nor the right course of action.
Mr. Dogbe said, “Haruna Iddrisu’s silence is actually fueling a lot of things. He cleverly avoided talking about the changes [when he issued a disclaimer on Facebook]. Couldn’t that be deliberate? I think Haruna holds the key to resolving this particular matter. His silence is not helping matters at all. People think that his silence is dignifying, no his silence is not dignifying, it’s rather fueling matters”.
He entreated Mr. Iddrisu who has gone through the mill to pull the breaks by joining forces with Ato Forson, the new Minority Leader to calm matters down.
“Ato Forson and Haruna are very good friends, so they should know what to do to solve the issue. Haruna should try to pull the breaks by saying he’s the big guy who needs to bring people up. These are individuals with political ambitions, even a child is aware that Haruna has a presidential ambition,” he said.
According to him, the Tamale South MP has some clout among his constituents and that his chances of winning the party’s parliamentary elections won’t be affected by the reshuffle.
“Unless Haruna Iddrisu has become unpopular in Tamale South that a change will affect his chances of winning his seat, he has some clout out there, and so whether he’s in leadership or not, Haruna should be able to sail through easily at the primaries,” the Editor of the Herald Newspaper asserted.
He alleged that NDC members were behaving in a way that suggested the party was “leaderless or weak” and urged them to band together to find a solution.
We hear people saying, “We can’t make a non-entity a hero. We can’t make somebody. Emotions are what is driving this whole process. I believe that it simply portrays the NDC as a very weak organization with no real leadership. Members of the NDC are not portraying themselves in a positive light, according to Mr. Dogbe.
NDC members who violate party regulations should be disciplined, according to the editor of the Herald Newspaper.
A different group of MPs also asked the NDC leadership to disregard requests for the reorganization to be undone.
In a statement released on Saturday, January 28, 2023, the party’s Council of Elders cautioned the party’s disgruntled members, MPs, and party leadership to hold off on making any additional public statements.
