Frank Asiedu Bekoe
Director of Political Affairs in the
Office of the Chief of Staff, Frank Asiedu Bekoe, is of the view that
intellectuals and levelheaded students do not join the Tertiary Education
Institutions Network (TEIN) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC),
stressing that the students’ wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is the most
intellectual political wing on any campus across the country.
“When I gave you my acceptance speech, I welcomed the NDC because I knew they were
going to be here. Like I said on another platform, the NPP is the most
intellectual wing on any campus. And if you’re a levelheaded person, if you’re
an intellectual, you don’t go to school and join the NDC. This is because the
NDC has never won any election in any campus in this country, not even Ho
Polytechnic,” he claimed, at the handover ceremony of the Tertiary Education
Students Confederacy Network (TESCON) of the NPP, University of Professional
Studies (UPSA) in Accra.
Mr Frank Asiedu Bekoe added that the NDC had failed over the years to
demonstrate that they were intellectuals whenever they had been given the
mandate to govern the country. He cited the NDC’s recourse to the International
Monetary Fund (IMF), for help in managing the economy, as an example.
“They have never won in any campus before. Why? Because a party that is bereft
of ideas, a party when faced with a challenge, you run to the white man at the
IMF and go for policy credibility. You’re not an intellectual. Because an
intellectual is someone who is able to deal with challenges that confronts him
or her. And the NDC has failed to show this leadership.
You go to the IMF for policy credibility. It means you’re brainless or you’re
brain dead. That you have a problem as a wife or husband and you move to
another person’s husband or wife to come and solve your problem for you? You’re
not qualified to be called a mother or father of that home,” he told the
cheering members of TESCON.