Aspiring National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, Dan Abodakpi says the incumbent and his two deputies who are also contesting the position, are unfit to lead the party.

According to him, current party Chair, Dr. Kwabena Adjei, his two vice Chairs; Kofi Porturphy and Alhaji Huudu Yahya have failed to pull together the grassroot support base of the governing party.

The NDC is preparing to go to congress to elect new national officers on Saturday, December 20 at the Babayara Sports Stadium in the Ashanti Regional capital of Kumasi.

Elections watchers tip the National Coordinator for the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Kofi Porturphy, to topple the incumbent, even though, Dr. Adjei insists he will pull a surprise on that day. 

Speaking Thursday, December 18, 2014, on the Super Morning Show on Joy FM, Mr. Abodakpi accused “All three of them [Dr. Adjei, Porturphy and Yahya] of not being able to help the party and so must give way.”

“They have failed to build a symbiotic relationship between the party and government…and to proffer suggestions on the implementation of campaign promises in a structured way,” Ghana’s former Ambassador to Malaysia stated.

He said, “I for example am aware that our branch levels of the party are in total disarray and that there needs to be something done urgently in order to energise them” stressing that the NDC “is not the bona fide property of anybody”.

The former Trade and Industry Minister, therefore, appealed to delegates to vote for him as the National Chairman to bring his experience to bear on the party and energise it at the grassroots.

“The current team of the chairman and his vice chairman have gotten to the point where we need some changes…to inure to the betterment of the party and the government,” he said.

Other positions being contested keenly are National Organiser position between incumbent Yaw Boateng Gyan and Kofi Adams.

Another hotly contested slot is the Deputy General Secretary which has former Presidential Spokesperson Koku Anyidoho and former Adentan MP Kojo Adu Asare vying.  

In all, 70 aspirants will be vying for 23 positions at the National Delegates’ Congress of the governing party.

Listen to Dan Abodakpi speaking to Kojo Yankson, host of the Super Morning Show on Joy FM.