Rawlingses still have a future in NDC – Seth Ofori

A political strategist and former Communications Director of the governing National Democratic Congress, Mr Seth Ofori Ohene, says it is his honest belief that the Rawlingses still have a future in the NDC.

The founder of the NDC, former president Jerry John Rawlings and his wife Nana Konadu are believed to have berthed a new political party, the National Democratic Party, on the political landscape determined to scuttle the second-term bid of President JEA Mills.

Mr Ofori Ohene had, in the wake of a rancorous presidential primary and chaotic aftermath, predicted that if cool heads did not prevail, the NDC would find itself in a very unpleasant situation, going into the 2012 elections.

Refusing to feel vindicated, the one-time Press Secretary to then candidate Mills, told Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Thursday, he was hopeful the cracks could still be mended.

He said it was a spectacularly bad development for the ruling party to go into an election so divided.

According to him, if the power brokers in the party tamed their egos and allowed reason and sobriety to prevail, the situation would have been different.

He believes the NDC is a strong party and can win the December polls if the unity in the party is maintained.

Mr Ofori, who hopes to vie for a parliamentary seat if the Electoral Commission divides the Akropong Constituency into two, said all was not lost yet.

Courtesy:myjoyonline.com

Righting the Wrong: the way for NUGS

The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) since its formation in the year 1965 has been simmering with division as a result of high political interferences with the general operation of the mother union of all students both resident and outside Ghana. However, the project of the division of Nugs was completed by Hamza Suhyini and Abotchie Afryie of University of Ghana, Legon and University College of Management Studies (UCOMS) respectively in 2011.

The nightmare of students waking up to the news of two Presidents for Nugs is at its end and the Osman-led-administration has led the fight to instill discipline and some sense of responsibility into the Union we all love.

On Saturday, 23 June, 2012, Mr. Osman Ayariga (President of NUGS) and his able National Executive Officers sat on the same table with the other party led by Peter Kodjie for the unity we all search at a Central Committee (CC) meeting held at the Garden City University College, Kumasi to look at the way forward for the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS).

Many people didn't see this day coming but what i can confidently say is that the Ghanaian students are the victors and Osman and his men have shown a good leadership credentials unparalleled.

We must say never again to this division-mongers like Abotchie Afriyie and his cohorts and take up the responsibility of safeguarding the founding documents of our union.

Nugs is bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions.

At this stage, we have to agree to review our constitution and re-channel the "aluta continua... victoria ascerta" focus of Nugs into a worthwhile cause by clearly defining the role the Union must play in this post-independence era in order for it not to get lost in the vortex of civil societies.

Let's always agree to disagree and disagree to agree.

Long Live Ghanaians.

Aluta Continua...Victoria Ascerta