Regional News of Thursday, 26 February 2004

Source: The Statesman

NDC Is In ?Coma?

The New Juaben Municpal Chief Executive (MCE), Nana Adei-Boateng, says the National Democratic Congress is in comatose and those who continue to predict victory for the party in this year?s general elections are only day-dreaming.

He said the true democrats in the NDC know this, but it is only the fanatics who are refusing to see what is on the ground.

While he did not go as far as to predict that the former ruling party is heading for the electoral necropolis, the MCE?s apocalyptic description of the Rawlings is likely to attract condemnation from die-hard members of the party. His sentiments are in line with a growing recognition that the NDC leadership appears buoyed up by NPP-bashing phone-ins on urban radio stations, while on the grounds of a vast majority of the 110 districts in the country the evidence of the three-year old Kufour administration appears persuasive enough for the voters to give the New Patriotic Party more time to effectuate positive changes in their lives.

Addressing an NPP rally at Kwahu Bepong on Sunday, Nana Adjei-Boateng said Ghanaian have now seen the difference between the NDC and NPP in terms of development. Referring to the NDC slogan, ?Sankofa,? the MCE asked whether the NDC wants Ghanains to go back for the PNDC/NDC brutalities or the non-performance of the party in its 20-year rule, using Koforidua, the regional capital as an example. ?For 20 years, Koforidua roads did not see bitumen but today, all the roads are tarred and more traffic lights have been provided.