“Reconsider our decision and accept us as prodigal sons and daughters” NDP defectors plead with NDC

symbol of the NDP 

President Mahama

13/10/12          

Three Regional Executive of the newly formed National Democratic Party (NDP) in the Upper East have officially announced their resignation from the party to reunite with the NDC. At a press conference held in Bolgatanga, the defected NDP executive members pledged their unflinching support for the NDC under the leadership of  President Mahama in the 2012 election, recounting on his character traits as akin to the humility of the late president Mills. According to them they will have themselves to blame if they miss the victory train of the NDC because it was obvious from all indication that President Mahama was poised for victory in the upcoming December polls. For them, there was a new atmosphere in Mahama led NDC, adding that Ghanaians who are not even members of the NDC are hailing  the candidature of President Mahama due to his vision for the country. When asked about their reasons for their sudden defection, they responded that their decision was informed by the fact that they were misled into joining the NDP with the intention of destroying the NDC. According to them they were recruited to be used as agents of destruction because they felt abandoned by the party in the past. In a statement signed by James Atenga, General Secretary of the party, some NDC members who were misled into the NDP are themselves hiding away and are refusing to show their faces because they know the NDP is a bad idea. Some he moreover noted are secretly pleading to be accepted by the new leadership of the NDC.  He therefore called on his fellow disgruntled party members throughout the country who think they can find solace in the NDP to rescind their decision and join the NDC before it is too late.. A leading NDC youth activist, Siddii Musah Abubakar, on behalf of the regional executives of the NDC accepted the defectors of the NDP back into the party. Mr Musa Abubakar told Radio Ghana’s Isaac Asare  that defectors of the NDP can assume their positions they held when they were with the NDC. In all 32 members of the NDP across the region announced their defection to the NDC

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