The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has called on the electorates within the Central Region to deeply introspect on their failure to make his party their party of choice during national elections.

Speaking during a recent campaign event in the Central Region, Asiedu Nketiah noted that the failure of residents in the Central Region to vote for the NDC, despite the party consistently selecting either a flagbearer or running mate from the region, should be an indictment on their consciences.

While making his case, the national chairman alluded that the electorate, considering the circumstance, “should not blame Jesus if they don’t make it to Heaven.”

“... you have a lot of valuable assets, but you are discarding them. Why are you throwing out your intestines and replacing them with rubbish? There are regions in Ghana where the flagbearer of a party comes from, and ever since, the people of those regions have consistently voted for that party. But you, the people of the Central Region, who helped form the NDC, in all eight elections held in this Fourth Republic, there has not been one in which a person from the Central Region wasn’t a flagbearer or running mate. Yet, during elections, you vote against the NDC. Think about this carefully. If you don’t make it to Heaven, don’t blame Jesus,” he stated.

Asiedu Nketiah further outlined the history of the NDC and how the party had, over the years, honored the Central Region through the selection of key officers of the party and thus urged the electorates to vote for the NDC.

“Today, I have come to look directly into the faces of you, residents of the Central Region, and speak the truth. What I want you people to know is that you are royals in the NDC, but you are behaving like people who don’t value their worth. This party was founded by celebrated personalities from the Central Region, including Kwamena Ahwoi, Kwesi Botchwey, Ato Ahwoi, and others.

“In our first election, we chose someone (K.N. Arkaah) from the Central Region as our running mate. In our second election, we selected Prof. Mills as our running mate, and in our third election, Prof. Mills became our flagbearer. In our fourth and fifth elections, Prof. Mills was our flagbearer. He won and became president.

“When he died, John Mahama took over and selected someone (P.K. Amissah-Arthur) from the Central Region to be vice president. After Amissah-Arthur, today, we have Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang from the Central Region as our running mate and soon-to-be vice president,” said the former Deputy Minister of Agriculture during the Rawlings regime.

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