GHC400K Filling Fees: Any Agenda To Sell NDC To Mahama Will Fail

Deputy General Secretary of the ruling, News Patriotic Party (NPP) Obiri Boahen, has said the National Executive Council (NEC) of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) agenda to sell the NDC party to Former President John Mahama to the detriment of those who have openly declared their move to contest Mahama aimed at winning the 2020 elections will fail.

According to him, The National Executive Council (NEC) of the party executives is aware that, the only person who can afford the gh¢ 420, 000 filling fees to lead the party as the flagbearer for the 2020 elections at this material moment is John Mahama but there is no way former President Mahama can be reelected as the President of the republic of Ghana.

“I was not surprise when I heard the NDC Gh¢ 420, 000 filling fees, unless of course you are not being following the politics of NDC in the recent times, if you are following the politics of NDC in the recent times you can say in authority that they are championing Mahama’s agenda but nobody else but there is no way Mahama can win the 2020 elections” Obiri Boahen indicated.

Lawyer Obiri Boahen was speaking on Accra based OKAY FM monitored by thepressradio.com on Friday, November 30, 2018.

All male flag bearer aspirants of the NDC are expected to pay GHS 400,000 as filing fee while female flag bearer aspirants are to pay GHS 200,000 and persons with disability aspiring to the same position are to pay GHS 150,000.

The nomination form for the flag bearer slot is going for GHS 20,000. Also, Parliamentary aspirants are expected to pay GHS 20,000 as filing fees of which female aspirants will pay have of that.

The party took the decision at a NEC meeting on Thursday November 29 at the party’s headquarters in Accra.

So far, twelve people including former President John Dramani Mahama have indicated their interest to run for the flag bearer slot of the party in the presidential primaries scheduled for 19 January 2019.

Several political analysts and party faithfuls have raised red flag at the NEC’s decision as they believe the amount involved may scare most interested people from contesting in the race.

According to Lawyer Obiri Boahen, there is no way the National Executive Council (NEC) of the NDC agenda to bring Former President Mahama as the flagbearer can yield results so they should bring another candidate.

“I will advise the NDC to bring different candidate forward and sell him to make some impart in 2024 instead of Mahama and forget about 2020 because Mahama cannot make it” he admonished.