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General News on Thursday, April 25, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-04-25
John Dramani Mahama is the elected flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Dr. Nansata Yakubu, Development Consultant and Engineer for Democracy, urged the National Democratic Congress (NEC) to give a woman the opportunity to hold the position of party vice-president at the time of the election of 2020.
According to Yakubu, this would bring dynamism and freshness to the party's presidential ticket for the 2020 elections.
According to Dr. Yakubu, it was high time for the NDC to demonstrate good governance by presenting Ghanaians with a woman capable of being the second in the ballot for the 2020 poll.
Women's participation
Sharing his point of view on the choice of the vice-presidential candidate for the CND in an interview, Dr. Yakubu said: "The CND has such competent, experienced, formidable and energetic women who can also occupy the high office of vice. -president, if the opportunity arises. "
In the case of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), she declared that they were in power, which was out of the debate for the moment, adding that it was the NDC that was looking for a candidate for vice- presidency for his flag bearer. cautious that a woman has the opportunity, since 51% of the population is composed of women.
NDC ticket
On February 23, 2019, the NDC elected former president John Mahama as the standard bearer for the 2020 elections. The party has not yet elected a vice-presidential candidate.
Women's competence
Dr. Yakubu said that the question of whether the country was ready for a female vice presidency was not the central issue.
This is because the country has never given women the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, adding that they could only be judged if the opportunity arose.
She said it could be argued that in the 2016 elections, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom chose a woman, Ms. Brigitte Dzogbenuku, as running for the vice presidency and women such as Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings who ran in the elections. developed to be seen as powerful pretenders to become a third force.
In addition, she said that a former member of the Ellembelle constituency, Mrs. Samia Nkrumah, had tried to become a presidential candidate of the People's Party of the Convention (CPP) and had failed: "But you and I know that the CPP is a fragmented party. So we need the two big political parties to take the lead. "
Grooming people
Dr. Yakubu pointed out that the speech on training people for a position would not apply here because the NPP and the NDC have chosen candidates such as the late President, the late Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah -Arthur and even the current vice president. Mahamudu Bawumia, who were all technocrats, yet had the opportunity to contribute to the development of the nation.
Dr. Yakubu pointed out that women were in the vanguard of politics since independence, but for the country's 11 presidents, including the military regime, no women had ever held the position of Vice President as it always was.
Representation of women
"The 2003 elections in Rwanda featured the highest proportion of women in its national parliament. In 2008, Rwanda was the only country in the world to have a greater proportion of women parliamentarians than men, because of the quota of women that the government imposed, said Dr. Yakubu.
This, she said, had proven that if women had the opportunity, they could excel in politics despite threats of violence and oppression.
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