National Chairman of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has admitted to hardships and frustrations in the country and urged aggrieved supporters of the NPP to remain calm.

Several NDC supporters across the country have voiced out their frustrations over increasing hardships and limited opportunities by the government to ameliorate their plight since the return of the NDC to power, with some even threatening to cross carpet to the NPP.

But addressing NDC executives and supporters in Zabzugu in the Northern Region, the National Chairman of the NDC, who is embarking on a national tour to meet with aggrieved party supporters, admitted to both the hardships in the country and the frustrations of the party supporters, as he urged them to remain loyal to the NDC and wait for a future opportunity.

With the concerns of the party supporters, focused mainly on lack of employment opportunities and exclusion in distribution of political benefits from the administration, Asiedu Nketia acknowledged the concerns but also urged supporters to keep their morale high, cautioning that political rewards are often not distributed evenly at the same time by the same government.

“You don’t all reap your benefit at the same time because whatever happens, you cannot have opportunities to go around everybody at the same time and in the same year. Some would have to benefit today, and then tomorrow will be your turn,” he told the NDC executives and supporters.

To the NDC supporters who have threatened to quit the party and join the opposition NPP, the NDC National Chairman wondered whether the NPP could offer them the opportunities they are looking for if they left the NDC and joined the NPP.

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Admitting to their concerns of hardships and frustrations, the NDC Chairman told the supporters that whatever they were experiencing under the current government should be preferable to quitting the NDC in protest.



Meanwhile, a number of the officials and supporters who attended the meeting still expressed disappointment at the lack of opportunities for them, which they said was worsening their plight.

"We worked hard and campaigned for our party with the hope that things would be better for us with our party in power. But the truth is that things are getting worse, and there is real hardship. We need jobs to take care of ourselves and our families," one of them said, with nods of endorsement from his colleagues.

To them, the National Chairman only ''massaged their concerns" without offering "real hope."