June 4 revolution: Stephen Atubiga slams NDC leadership for allegedly abandoning Rawlings’ vision, grassroots

National Liberation Congress (NLC) founder and former National Democratic Congress (NDC) member Stephen Atubiga has sharply criticized the leadership of the main opposition party, accusing them of neglecting the party's grassroots and derailing the vision of the late founder Jerry John Rawlings.

In an impassioned speech on the June 4, commemorating Rawlings' overthrow of the SMC regime, Mr Atubiga said the NDC had "turned into a capitalist organization" that serves the interests of its leaders instead of the people.

He noted that the National Liberation Congress (NLC) party he founded is "always disappointed in the leadership of our mother party NDC, who should have known better about protecting the legacy of JJ and the socialist ideology."

Mr Atubiga alleged that when in power, the NDC leadership only thinks "about their stomach, neglecting those who break their backs in bringing the NDC to power."

While crediting the current NDC flagbearer John Mahama for achieving some good works during his presidency, Mr Atubiga said Mahama was "the last man standing" but cannot win the 2024 election.

He said "I just have the conviction with facts and personal instinct that JDM has hit a wall of the end of him winning the election again to be president...Yes, I agree he JDM is the last man standing now for the NDC. How did we come to this that there is nobody else except him? Very dangerous for a party that has been in power for the past 20+ years before..."

Mr Atubiga believes Mr Mahama would better serve the NDC as "the father of the party, the unifier of the party, and the lifetime king-maker of the party.”

He ended his statement by calling for "accountability, probity and justice for all" in the NDC."