NDC committed to upholding peaceful, free and fair elections next year

Accra, Nov. 28, GNA - The Caucus of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Regional Chairmen on Monday commended delegates, parliamentary aspirants and party members for a peaceful and orderly primary in the party's orphan constituencies across the country.

"NDC has demonstrated to Ghanaians and the entire nation through the holding of its parliamentary primaries in both the northern and the southern sectors that it's ready as a governing party to organise a peaceful, free and fair elections next year.

"The NDC was the first political party in the country to democratically lose an election as a governing party and willingly hand over peacefully to an opposition party...this is a track record we will guard in Elections 2012," Mr Kobina Ade Coker, Chairman of the Caucus told the Ghana News Agency in an interview in Accra.

Mr Ade Coker who is also the Greater Accra Regional Chairman, also commended all contestants for exhibiting a high sense of political maturity by accepting the outcome in good faith. 93There was no victor or vanquished in our elections".

He said the NDC will continue to promote the tenets of good governance, political accountability and champion peaceful, transparent, free and fair elections.

He said: 93NDC considers elections 2012 as crucial for strengthening Ghana's democratic dispensation; divinity has mandated the party to lead Ghana to set the pace for African elections".

Mr Ade Coker tagged the party as the champion of modern day Ghanaian politics; 93we have a lot at stake to uphold, and defend Ghana's democratic credentials".

He also disclosed that the party in the Region had mapped out a strategic political party organization machinery to propel the party to win over 80 per cent of the 27 parliamentary seats in the region.

"The strategy seeks to empower and increase the party's impact in constituencies it lost with marginal vote during the Elections 2008, whilst consolidating its operational impact in other constituencies it won with marginal votes.

He said the party would also focus on consolidating and reinforcing its strength in the strongholds; concentrate and intensify house to house campaign all year round to spread the Government and the party's achievement over the years in power.

Mr Ade Coker said the public needed to know government policies and plans for them, stressing: 93If you fail to blow your horn nobody will do that for you; the Region believes that as a party we urgently need to spread the good news of the party to defuse the vile propaganda of the opposition parties."

He commended the regional MPs for their performance in parliament and the constituencies, but urged them to intensify their impact, work in collaboration with all the party structures and serve the general interest of the party.