April 27

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order to know the party’s membership
base.
“I believe that people in Kumasi must
organise the ‘Unity Walk’, that’s how we’re
going to know our real strength on the
ground.
“Crowd-sourcing doesn’t give us the
real picture on the ground. Looking back,
you ask yourself so what happened after
Cape Coast, then what happened after
Accra, where are all those who filled the
stadia or stadium in Accra? So looking
back it didn’t give us our real strength, so
when we lost disastrously in Accra, that
number we saw was not reflected.”
NDC must stop
‘renting’ crowds
Background
It would be recalled that portions of the
Dr Kwesi Botchwey report on events leading
to the loss of the party in 2016 general
election said in the run-up to the crucial
elections, the NDC, with state resource at
its disposal, formed many splinter groups
to promote the second term bid of President
John Mahama.
Groups likes ‘Girls Girls for Mahama,’
‘Zongo Girls for Mahama,’ ‘Zongo for
Mahama,’ ‘Youth for Mahama,’ ‘Celebrities
for Mahama,’ and ‘Doves for Mahama’
were formed with resources to prosecute
the agenda, which failed woefully in the
end as Ghanaians overwhelmingly rejected
then candidate Mahama.
The committee further recommended
that the party needed to reconnect with its
social democratic philosophy.
NEWS DESK REPORT
AFORMER Minister
of Lands
and Natural Resources,
Alhaji
Inusah Fuseini,
has urged the National Democratic
Congress (NDC) not to
encourage the practice of
crowd-sourcing at its events,
especially rallies and ‘Unity
Walks’.
According to him, crowdsourcing
will not give the
NDC the right picture on the
ground as regards its membership
size.
The NDC, after suffering a
humiliating defeat in the 2016
general election, begun the
‘Unity Walks’ across the 10 regions
of the country, which is
targeted at closing the ranks of
the umbrella family and building
bridges that were broken in
the party before and during the
2016 electioneering.
• Former minister
tells party
The walks have seen
thousands of party
members thronging the
streets and participating
in the exercise, with
some political analysts
questioning the source
of the milling crowds as
to whether they were indeed
members of the
party in the respective
areas the walk had been
organised or that the
crowds were bussed
from elsewhere.
Speaking to Bola Ray
on ‘Starr Chat’ on Starr
FM, Mr Fuseini argued
that it would be important
for only Kumasi
members of the NDC to
partake in the upcoming
‘Unity Walk’ slated for
the Ashanti Region in
“I believe that
people in Kumasi
must organise
the ‘Unity Walk’,
that’s how we’re
going to know our
real strength on
the ground.
• Alhaji Inusah Fuseini,
former Minister of
Lands and Natural
Resources