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Power
sharing disclaimer by NDC
Accra, Oct. 27, Ghandot/GNA - The National Democratic
Congress (NDC) on Monday refuted allegations that it was
embarking on acts that would lead to power sharing, should
it lose the December polls.
At a press conference in Accra to react to allegations by
some members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) last week that
suggested that the NDC was interested in power sharing, Mr
Fiifi Kwetey, Propaganda Secretary of the NDC, said apart
from not being interested in power sharing, the party was
also not interested in sharing power with a class of people
whose regime had been “characterised by corruption and
deceit” among others.
Mr. Kwetey said allegations that NDC sent its Director of
International Affairs, Mr Kofi Attoh, to Kenya to learn
about power sharing were not true. Rather Mr Attoh was there
as a resource person at an international seminar organised
by Friedrich Erbert Foundation.
"We in the NDC know that it is rather the NPP that is
desperate to cling on to power at all costs that they are
determined to spare no efforts with a view of creating
conditions that will call for power sharing deal when they
lose the elections," Mr Kwetey noted.
He said the NDC provided the whole of Africa an example of
model transition of power in 2000, when it presided over one
of the most seamless and smoothest transfers of power, which
brought the NPP to power.
Mr Kwetey said the party did not only show love for peace
and national cohesion when it was in power, but also
exhibited same by restraining itself and decided not to
react when in 2004, the NPP illegally declared itself winner
of the elections.
He said the party's position on this year's election was
that every effort should be deployed to ensure that the
Electoral Commission did its work well to bring about
credible elections.
Mr Kwetey urged the security agencies to discharge their
duties with professionalism and impartiality, adding that,
their foremost duty is to defend and protect the state and
its people.
GNA
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