NDC execs meet foot soldiers in Western Region

LEADING members of the ruling National Democratic Congress NDC have arrived in the Western region to strategize on how to galvanize support from the grass root to ensure the success of party in the 2012 elections.

The nationwide exercise is being led by the party's General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, and is being perceived by the youth in the region as a directive from President John Evans Atta Mills for the party to listen to the cry of the foot soldiers in the various constituencies.

A member of the team, Col. Kaku Korsah (rtd.) confirmed in a telephone interview with The Chronicle that indeed leading members of the party were in the region to interact with foot soldiers at the various constituencies.

Col. Korsah, however, refuted the assertion that the presence of the national team was a directive from the President.

He noted that since the party held its national delegates congress in Tamale that elected the current national executives, it had not been able to embark on a thank you tour, and that was exactly what the national executives are doing now.

He told the paper that whilst the executives were in the region to thank the members, it was equally important to take advantage of their presence to address pertinent issues confronting party organization.

Information reaching The Chronicle, however, indicate that at Asankragwa in the Amenfi west constituency, the home of the Minister of State at the presidency, Mr. John Gyetuah, some of the youth were denied access to the venue where the leadership of the party had gathered with some constituency branch and ward executives, and some foot soldiers to deliberate on the fortunes of the party.

The crime of the youth was that they were against the current constituency executives of the party in Amenfi west.

Even though in the other constituencies in the region, The Chronicle gathered that all the foot soldiers were allowed to share their views, the Asankragwa one was different because of the confusion raging in the area.

A former constituency executive of the NDC in the region, who is unhappy with certain developments in the government, told The Chronicle on condition of anonymity that President John Evans Atta Mills was aggrieved about the conduct of some of his appointees.

He said though there were leading members of the party who were unhappy with the youth washing the party's dirty linen in public, it was now clear to them that the concerns of those who suffered to bring the party to power were been relegated to the background.