NDC To Unseat NPP Next Year — Ohene-Kena

Graphic Oct - 31 - 2003 , 00:00

The Chairman of the Eastern Regional branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Fred Ohene-Kena, has predicted victory for the NDC in next year’s polls.

He said the writing was on the wall that the NPP regime would be ousted in democratic elections in 2004.

In an interview at his residence in Accra on Wednesday, Mr Ohene-Kena who was a Minister of Mines and Energy in the NDC regime, observed that the Kufuor Administration had failed to fulfil its electoral promises.

According to him, the inability of the NPP government to improve living conditions in the country offered the NDC a good opportunity to unseat the ruling regime.

Mr Ohene-Kena said economic difficulties had made it very difficult for the people to make ends meet, putting the NPP government in a tight corner.

He wondered what the NPP government would tell the electorate next year under such trying conditions, having failed to honour the promises it gave the electorate in the 2000 elections.

Touching on the strategies of the party in the Eastern Region, Mr Ohene-Kena said the party structures were being re-organised to position the party to wrest power from the ruling government next year.

He observed that it was erroneous for opponents of the NDC to think that the party was dead in the region, adding that the doubting Thomases must begin to revise their notes about the chances of the party in the region.

Mr Ohene-Kena said during the recent tour of the region by the NDC flagbearer, Prof. J. E. A. Mills, party faithful and the electorate turned out in their members to welcome him and pledged their support for him. He said the NDC was certain to win 15 seats out of the 26 seats in the region.