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Friday, March 11, 2016

Spio-Garbrah in Ghana to meet NDC leaders for talks
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot

Accra, Oct 14, Ghanadot - The Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization, Dr. Ekow Spio Garbrah, has indicated his readiness to meet with the party’s hierarchy in resolving the recent furore generated by his comments on President Mills’ style of governance.

In a press statement issued in Accra today, Dr Spio-Garbrah, who is currently in the country, said since he has no information regarding the process that the Party intends to use to address the issue and how long that process will take, he will be spending at least two weeks in Ghana to enable the party and or relevant government officials have all the necessary time to deal with the issues raised.

“I have travelled to Ghana from London and I am at the NDC Party office today out of respect to the Chairman of the Party, who I understand issued the statement, although I have received no phone calls, e-mails, text messages, faxes or letters from the Party headquarters on this matter.”

According to him, he wrote an article which was serialized in the 18th and 23rd September issues of the Daily Graphic, but that article was not appreciated by readers.

“My article attempted to honour the centenary celebration of the birth of Dr. Nkrumah and to examine what important lessons the current NDC administration could learn from Nkrumah’s achievements.

“Evidently some examples used to illustrate the main points in my argument were not appreciated by all readers, and a few people in the NDC party have chosen to malign for me for my views.”

He said though in his article, no NDC officials names were mentioned, no one was insulted and the President and Vice President were mentioned only because they head the current administration, many have argued that the article and some of the responses it received have demonstrated that there is healthy debate and internal democracy within the NDC.

Dr. Spio-Garbrah maintained that for this reason, “I will be in Ghana for at least two weeks, to enable the party and relevant government officials to have all the necessary time to deal with the issues raised.”

Ghanadot