NDC to hold NEC meeting on Monday

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) will on Monday, March 30, 2009 hold its first National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting after assuming the reins of power in January 7, 2009 to strategies in readiness for the 2012 elections.
The meeting is intended to review the party's activities before, during and after Election 2008, as well as its performance in government for the past three months.
Briefing the Daily Graphic, the Deputy National Organiser of the party, Mr Yaw Boateng Gyan said, “complacency and procrastination would never have any room in our government and party. Ghanaians have given us a mandate to rule and we will do that to please them and ensure that they never hesitate to vote massively for us in 2012”.
The NEC meeting will be attended by President J. E.A Mills, Vice-President John Dramani Mahama and former President J.J Rawlings who is also the founder of the party.
Others are the leadership of Parliament, all national officers, regional chairmen, secretaries, and organisers.
Mr Boateng Gyan said, although, the party won the 2008 elections, the margin it used in winning the presidential elections as well as the number of seats it had in Parliament fell below its expectations.
He said, the Brong Ahafo Region should have voted hands down for the party if one considered the amount of work the party did during Election 2008. “Surprisingly we lost Techiman North and Berekum”.
In the Ashanti Region, Mr Boateng Gyan who was part of the Prof. Mills Campaign Team, said, “ NDC should have done better in the region and not lost the Obuasi seat to the New Patriotic Party (NPP). These are some of the few areas that we did not understand why we lost to the NPP,” he added.
He explained that it was due to some of these reasons that the party had tasked its regional representatives to liaise with constituency executive and come out with possible reasons that caused the problems.
Mr Boateng Gyan said the regional executive were also to solicit from the party foot soldiers the possible solutions to the issues and present them at the meeting.
“They are also to find out from the people their perception about the performance of the NDC government in a frank and bold manner,” he said.
He added that Ghanaians voted for the NDC based on its promises and the contents of its manifesto and gave the assurance that the party had put in place adequate measure and systems to ensure that it was always on track in fulfilling its electoral promises.
Mr Boateng Gyan said with its experience in government from 1992 to 2000, and in opposition for eight years, the party had come to appreciate that Ghanaians could never be taken for granted and that nothing would be spared to ensure that the nation’s scarce resources were used economically for the benefit of the ordinary Ghanaian.