The Political Parties Outside Parliament (PPOP) has described the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) as a sore loser for describing them as mushroom parties.
The group said it sounds strange that the NDC that had the support of these same parties reject the compilation of a new register in 2015 shows how unprincipled they are.
According to them, the issues the NDC complain of today were the same when they were in office hence the current administration has also inherited what they stood for in the past but standing against today.
The parties asked the NDC to respect the opinions of others and not impose theirs on them.
”The mindset and attitude of the NDC by its response to the IPAC proposed electoral reforms and speaking through its Director of Elections Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, is like our folk hero, Kwaku Ananse, in the legend of Ananse’s fantasy to sweep all wisdom into a gourd to be hung on a treetop. When Kwaku Ananse thought he had accomplished the feat and was to send the gourd unto a treetop, he, unfortunately, impeded his climb by placing the gourd on his belly.
It took supposedly worthless little NTIKUMAH to suggest to Kwaku to place the gourd on his back, demonstrating that Kwaku was on a worthless pursuit. Ghana has already made very worthy strides into democratic goals of humanity, peace and development which no clever arguments can dispute.
Political Parties outside parliament will therefore appeal to the NDC to place their wisdom gourd on their back so we can all together reach the zenith of our democracy for the peace and development of our people.”
”Today the NDC would call other Parties worthless but it forgets that it has pulled its own archival political parties as part of its voice, namely EGLE and Reform Party. Not long ago the venerable Ghana Freedom Party Presidential Candidate, Madam Akua Donkor, acted as the NDC Policy oracle and was prominent in the NDC Presidential entourage to Senchi forum as well as on foreign trips which included same allied Political Party Leaders, namely, Gyataba, Akwasi Addai Odike, Bernard Morna, etc. What has changed now for this new position of seeking equity in voting at IPAC demanded by the NDC?
In keeping with a sound pluralistic atmosphere the participation by other political parties outside parliament has been and continues to be beneficial in nurturing our multiparty participatory Democracy.
Indeed any obnoxious impediments to widening the frontiers of participation of the citizenry and other political parties must not be accepted in the era of information technology and demand for national accountability.”
Read the full statement below
By: Rainbowradioonline.com
