“I have indicated that I will be contesting but I will not make a formal announcement until the process is officially launched, I am of the view that it was in the interest of the NPP to encourage people to contest and make sure the best was selected, I am ready to lead the party. “If we lose two successive elections which we should have won by any stretch of the imagination, then something must be wrong and we should be bold enough to interrogate that and get answers to it.”“I have heard people in our party say that I should let Nana Akufo-Addo run. The foundation of our party is based on the core element of democratic governance and much as we think about such principles at the national level, we need to reflect that in what we do in our party. Part of that is fair competition. “Allowing people who have interest to put themselves up for the party to be able to do so without any fear of intimidation or as it were encouraged not to put themselves up, I think that is the spirit of what we believe in, it should be a free process,” . “I have a very good relationship with Nana Akufo-Addo. I have contested him on two occasions and I am not sure you hear either Nana or myself in our rounds give any indication that we were at each other’s throats. “Obviously, in any competition, you need to position yourself as a preferred candidate and that comes with its own limitations. But beyond that, I think the spirit of what we believe in should encourage us to have a process that is unlimited in terms of people who may want to put themselves up. It is not just myself. There are others who obviously might have the same interest… I don’t see the logic that we encourage people not to contest.”
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:41:57 +0000
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