NDC rolls out plans to achieve million votes in Ashanti

Ashanti Regional branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has tasked all registered members of the party in the region to get five more members to join the party.

Currently, the branch has registered 200,000 fully paid-up members under the ongoing biometric registration exercise and each one of the registered members has been tasked to get five more members. This adds up to one million.

Laying out one of the key strategies to realise its mission of securing one million votes in the stronghold of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), in the Ashanti Region, the General Secretary of the party, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, explained that apart from each of the 200,000 registered members getting five more people to vote for the party, the good works of the government, led by President Mahama, would also ensure that the party achieved its target.

The general secretary announced this in Kumasi last Wednesday when he gave out some of the biometric cards to those registered as a symbolic move for the distribution of the cards.

Operation One Million Votes

The NDC early this year launched Operation One million votes in the Ashanti Region with the hope of increasing the party’s votes in the 2016 general election.

In the 2012 election, the NDC had 612,616 votes while the NPP secured 1,531,152 votes in the Ashanti Region.

Voting rights

Mr Asiedu Nketiah added that the registration was to ensure that no party executive at any level could deny any member of the party the right to take part in major decisions such as voting to elect leaders of the party at all levels.

He said the registration would also enable the party to raise funds from its members, adding that “this biometric registration will ensure seamless payment of dues and other contributions to the party.”

He assured the members that the current registration was for members of the party in readiness for the forthcoming parliamentary and presidential primaries

He gave the assurance that the party would open the registration again in December this year for new members and others who would defect from other parties to the NDC.

Later in an interview with the Daily Graphic, the Ashanti Regional Secretary of the NDC, Mr Raymond Tandoh, noted that already the party had put in place measures to first secure its admirable internal unity and discipline in the region.