I will take Rawlings back to the countryside – Alabi assures Volta NDC

General News of Saturday, February 23, 2019

Source: Myjoyonline.com

2019-02-23

Presidential hopeful of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Professor Joshua Alabi promised to strengthen his 2020 campaign with the reintroduction and active participation of party founder, Jerry John Rawlings.

Professor Alabi has expressed his commitment to bring the NDC founder back into the horde of political campaigns, describing this initiative as one of the cornerstones on which his victory in the party's 2020 elections will rest.

"Let me badure you, my brothers and sisters, that I will come back here next year to campaign, and that day you will see your father, your son, your uncle and your brother, JJ Rawlings. will be here with you going back to the elections, "he said this week to officials of the NDC branch in the Volta region.

The professor was campaigning in the Volta region to seek votes before the NDC president's primaries this weekend.

Professor Alabi badured members of the NDC that he wished to unite the party as a standard bearer, and promised to ask his competitor, former president, John Dramani Mahama, to also direct another stage of the 2020 campaign, alongside all the other leading members of the group. gone to campaign.

The NDC experienced its worst political defeat in 2016: under the leadership of President Mahama, it registered 44.4% of the votes in the national polls. Some NDC researchers have blamed former president Rawlings for abandoning the 2016 NDC campaign, hence the defeat.

The founding father of the NDC is held out of the party's aggressive campaign activities because of its differences with conducting business within the party. He has repeatedly reprimanded his party's leadership publicly, expressing dissatisfaction, much to the chagrin of the leadership of the party.

In response to his occasional public outbursts, some party leaders, who are close allies of former President Mahama, also attacked the founding father and questioned his integrity and relevance in the current political context.

The general consensus within the party, however, underscores the fact that the founding father is loved by a huge population within the party that aspires to return to the party's campaign activities.

By completing his tour of the NDC fortified region, the professor promised to honor the region by granting him reciprocity for consistently voting for the ruling party.

Accompanied by former party members from the region, including the former 84-year-old ambbadador, Ambbadador James Victor Gbeho, and the deputy speaker of the ruling Parliament, Keneth Dzirasah, the professor mentioned the Eastern Corridor Road and other delayed projects in the area, if any. for the development of the region and added that they will be his priority during his election to the presidency.