Upper East Caucus of NDC declares unflinching support for Mills

The Upper Regional caucus of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has on a unanimous decision declared their unflinching support to the President, Prof. John Evans Attah Mills, in his bid to go unopposed in the party’s upcoming Presidential congress slated to take place on April, 8-10, 2011. At a regional expanded executive committee meeting held at Bolgatanga, the Regional Vice Chairman, Victor Yahaya, said their decision to back the sitting president arrived after a careful consideration of the fact that any contest will give the party additional task of managing falls out from the congress instead of staying focused on the government’s Better Ghana Agenda, which he observed, is already on course. Their position, he further explained, is justifiable based on several observation and consultations made within the rank and file of the party and called on the elders of the party to work out a plan and allow the president to go unopposed. He said as a social democratic party, they are bent on ensuring the unity of its members, hence the need for the leadership at the national level to come to a compromise rather than going for a congress to choose a presidential candidate for 2012 elections. Mr. Yahaya said there is a provision in the NDC constitution for decisions in the party to be made on consensus basis. Subsequently, it is also conventional in the country’s unwritten constitution to give every sitting president a second term to be able to execute his developmental agenda since the four year period is not enough for one to translate his visions to concrete and tangible projects for the benefit of the nation. According to him, though it is democratic for the Former First lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, to contest Mills in the upcoming NDC congress, one has to follow the underlying principles enshrined in the party‘s constitution which stipulates that a sitting President be given the second chance to execute his unfinished developmental agenda. He noted that the President’s recent regional working tour to most deprived areas of the country, is an ample indication that he is really on course in propelling his developmental agenda on a high pedestal, hence the need to give him the chance to execute his visionary mandate. He later charged the party faithful to rally their support for President Mills to achieve his set objective. Interestingly, almost all the regional executives of the NDC with the exception of the Northern Region have so far declared their position to back President Mills to go unopposed in the forthcoming Presidential congress.
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