National Democratic Congress (NDC) has introduced tight security measures to prevent minutes of their meeting getting to the hands of the media.
At their last National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held at the party’s plush office complex at Adabraka in Accra on Thursday, October 12, 2017 there was strict securing checks to ensure that no one sneaked in any gadget to record the meeting which took a decision on its timetable for electing officers at the various levels.
A source at the party’s headquarters told Today that members were subjected to thorough search at the entrance to the embarrassment of some of them.
Unconfirmed reports say some aggrieved party stalwarts who could not stand it, allegedly walked out in anger.
Before the meeting started, the party’s security detail reportedly prevented visitors from entering the premises and all NEC members were not allowed to enter with their mobile phones or any other gadgets.
They were then said to have been screened with metal detectors, in spite of vehement protests by some of the committee members.
The party’s leadership had been incensed following the recent leakage of the report of the Professor Kwesi Botchwey Committee that investigated why the NDC embarrassingly lost the 2016 general election.
The 65-page Executive Summary of the 455-page report, which the NDC is keeping like a state secret, was leaked to the media, forcing some of the executives to attempt to play down on the significance of the content of the report, albeit unsuccessfully.
Daily Guide will resume the publication of the report next week.
According to the report, John Dramani Mahama’s presidency schemed for Kofi Portuphy and Kofi Adams to become National Chairman and National Organiser respectively of the NDC – a factor, the 13-member Prof Kwesi Botchwey Committee report claims, contributed to the disastrous defeat of the party.
Immediately that was done, the party’s machinery collapsed and never recovered, according to the executive summary of the report.
The report says with the election of the two leading officers, the party’s hierarchy became sycophants and did the bidding of the presidency instead of concentrating on how it would remain in office.
“Kofi Adams and Kofi Portuphy were beneficiaries of the presidency machinations during the Kumasi Congress to elect them,” the report reveals on Page 27.
It added on page 28 that “after the party’s congress in Kumasi, the party’s hierarchy collapsed,” saying, “party hierarchy became sycophantic in its relationship with the government.”
Kofi Adams unseated incumbent, Yaw Boateng Gyan, as National Organiser while Mr Portuphy removed then Chairman, Dr. Kwabena Adjei, aka Wayo Wayo, or Cat Hunter, from office in an acrimonious congress of the party held in Kumasi in December, 2014.
The report recounts instances where some greedy party executives put in-charge of Mahama’s second term bid, stole campaign cash and denied NDC foot-soldiers their share of the cake.
Story: Political Desk
