Merit should be the only yardstick - Spio-Garbrah

Sekondi, Dec.12, GNA- Delegates attending the upcoming congress of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have been told to allow merit and not sympathy or any other considerations to inform their decision to elect a capable flagbearer.

Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, one of the aspiring NDC flagbearers said the three other aspirants must not go back on the promise and the pact they signed to remain loyal to the party and support whoever wins the race.

He was briefing Journalists at Sekondi at the end of his tour of the northern parts of the Western Region as part of his campaign to canvas for votes at the congress.

Dr. Spio-Garbrah said he has the exuberance, personality, experience and everything it takes to lead the NDC to victory in 2008. He likened his personality, youthfulness and courage to former President Rawlings who had large following when he became the leader of the country and said there was the indication that he would be the "obvious choice" of the delegates.

"Election is a political battlefield that needs a strategist to win", he stated and said he had nominated four people including a woman to be his running mate should he win.

Dr. Spio-Garbrah said should he win, one of his main priorities would be to strengthen the party structures by providing them with the needed logistics so that they could function more efficiently. He stressed that what the country needs now was a "transformation president who will be capable of moving the nation forward". Dr. Spio-Garbrah said none of the other aspirants posed a threat to his ambition and those who have predicted that he would not clinch victory "will live to eat their own words" after the congress.