NDC integrates party with grass-roots participation
The Vice-President, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, has said that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is integrating the party with grass-roots participation, hence the policy to hold separate congresses for its Women and Youth Wings.
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He said the policy would also encourage grass-roots participation and allow democratisation of finances for the party’s campaign in the 2016 general election.
Vice-President Amissah-Arthur was addressing the National Women’s Delegates Congress of the NDC in Wa to elect a national women’s organiser and two deputies for the party.
He urged the delegates to continue to mobilise resources for the 2016 campaign and advised them to take the best decision and elect the best women to lead them to help the party to win the 2016 polls.
The General-Secretary of the NDC, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, hinted that the party had plans to rotate its congresses all over Ghana and urged the women to put the experiences that they would gain from the Wa Congress to test in the next events.
He said some people were asking why the NDC was holding its elections “tot by tot” but the reason behind it was to give the opportunity to women to decide what was good for them.
The General Secretary said it was an opportunity for NDC women and youth to decide who their leaders should be without any interference and to complement whatever decision they had embarked on.
“Usually women are always the fewer, as they allow men to choose leadership positions for them.
“It is for this reason we want women to be independent and decide who their leaders are and are prepared to work with the leadership they have put in place,” Mr Nketia said.
He said it was the hope of the NDC to make women leadership a higher decision-making organ in the party.