Raymond Tandoh
The Ashanti Regional General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Raymond Tandoh, has appealed to the party’s members in the region to remain calm and unite ahead of the December polls.
According to him, the NDC’s objective of winning one million votes in the Ashanti region to help President John Dramani Mahama to win in the first round of the December 7 polls would be attained if peace reigns in the party.
He particularly urged the Regional Communication Team, led by Samed Akalilu, to exercise restraint in view of logistical challenges in the supreme interest of the “Great NDC.”
Mr. Tandoh admitted that the NDC communication department in the region lacked key logistics such as vehicles.
He expressed grave concern about the difficulties that the NDC communicators go through on a daily basis to travel to various radio stations in the region to defend the party and government.
Mr. Tandoh however urged the NDC communicators not to give up hope, especially as the 2016 national elections draw closer, stressing that the party would rely on them to win more votes this year.
The NDC scribe assured that he would work assiduously to ensure that the logistical problem facing the communications department is properly addressed.
He gave assurance that he would personally intervene so that the party’s leadership would provide a vehicle for the Ashanti Regional Communication Team of the NDC in the coming weeks to boost their work.
In an interview with DAILY GUIDE, he appealed to the teeming members of the party not to go on air and wash the party’s dirty linen in the public to arm the NDC’s opponents.
According to him, all party matters should be kept confidential, noting that the NDC is one big family with a common destiny.
A member of the Communication Team, Godwin Bobobi, last week launched a scathing attack on the party’s leadership, accusing them of neglect of the foot-soldiers.
The loquacious NDC communicator alleged that some of the executives of the NDC in the Ashanti region were using the party’s resources to womanize and consume alcohol to the detriment of members of the party.
Bobobi’s statement caused anger and anxiety among the leadership of the party in the region, who claimed that the NDC communicator exceeded his limits by making those statements to arm their political opponents.
He was said to have been quickly summoned to a meeting on Monday afternoon where he was reprimanded.
Mr Bobobi, in an interview with Oheneba Nana Asiedu of Silver FM, disclosed that most of the NDC members in the region, especially the communication team members who wallow in poverty had been neglected.
He said that members of the NDC Communication Team do not even have bicycles to travel home after participating in radio programmes in the night, a development which exposes them to attacks.
From I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi