Election 2008: Oil Money Is Coming

The Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) would soon heave a big sigh of relieve as the financial problems currently facing the party would be a thing of the past. This is because reliable information reaching The Point newspaper from Latin America indicates that President Hugo Chavezo of Venezuela has finally accepted a request made by the founder of the Party, Mr. Jerry Rawlings for financial assistance to his Party.

It would be recalled that ex-President Rawlings on Friday, 12 January 2007 held a joint private meeting in Managua the capital of Nicaragua with the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, the Bolivian President Evo Morales and the Vice President of Cuba, Jose Ramon Machado on how to assist NDC recapture power in 2008.

The Point newspaper also learnt that President Chavez pledged at the said meeting to provide financial and material assistance to ensure the return of NDC to power in 2008. According to our sources, the reason for the assistance to the NDC is that Chavez sees President Kufuor as too close to the Bush Administration, hence their determination to assist the NDC to deliver a resounding blow to the NPP.

On his part, President Ortega agreed to dispatch some Sandinista advisers to Ghana to guide the NDC about tactics and strategies to be employed by the party to regain power. NDC’s financial problems came to the fore recently at what they described as “family meeting” where the flagbearer of the party, Prof. Evans Atta Mills laid bare the financial situation of the party.

According to Prof. Atta Mills, the NDC was in dire need of money as it could not mobilise even 650million cedis to defray a debt it owed as results of their national congress. It has been estimated by one of the persons who contested for the flagbearership that the NDC needed not less than $20million for effective campaign in the run-up to the 2008 elections.