Tony Aidoo roars
THE DIRECTOR of Policy, Monitoring and Evaluation at the Presidency, Dr. Tony Aidoo, has observed that the current rumpus going on in the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) was as a result of selfishness and greed.
According to the firebrand politician, the marginalisation and lack of recognition of the roles played by the Rawlingses were things that were eating up the party slowly.
Dr. Tony Aidoo, who was speaking on the Alhaji and Alhaji programme on Radio Gold in Accra last Saturday, lambasted his party compatriots for growing wings overnight, and very difficult to deal with.
Dr. Aidoo told listeners that when the transitional committee was about to be set up, he suggested that a member from the Rawlings' family be included, and went further to name Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, but his suggestion was turned down, on the grounds that Ms. Sherry Ayittey and Kofi Adams were both coming from the Rawlings side.
According to Aidoo, though he contended that Ms. Ayittey was representing the 31st Women's Movement, whilst Kofi Adams was there as an executive member of the NDC, and for that matter there was the need to still have someone from the Rawlings family, his suggestion was still rejected.
He questioned whether his suggestion at that time was still relevant today or not, following the rumpus that was emanating from the revelations of Hebert Mensah and Ato Ahwoi.
He argued that part of the problem in the party could be linked to this idea twhich was turned down.
The former deputy defence minister disagreed with the General Secretary of the party, Mr. Johnson Aseidu Nketiah's submission that factionalism was killing the party, adding that the NDC, since its formation in 1992, had always been engulfed with functionalism.
He further disagreed with Mr. Nketiah that it was not time for the formation of groupings in the party.
Dr. Aidoo questioned whether the visit of the party's National Chairman and regional chairmen to the castle was not another way of creating factionalism in the party.
According to him, some years back, he accused Dr. Obed Yao Asamoah, a former national chairman of the party, of creating factionalism in the party, but regretted that as a result of this criticism, a leading member refused to talk to him for six good months, but it later emerged that Dr. Asamoah had indeed created factions within the party.
Touching on his own problem with the party, Dr. Aidoo said after the party had won the elections, he was asked to produce his curriculum vitae (CV) before he could be offered a job, but he declined, 'because a woman you know her face in the day, you don't light a candle to look at her face in the night.'
According to the firebrand politician, the marginalisation and lack of recognition of the roles played by the Rawlingses were things that were eating up the party slowly.
Dr. Tony Aidoo, who was speaking on the Alhaji and Alhaji programme on Radio Gold in Accra last Saturday, lambasted his party compatriots for growing wings overnight, and very difficult to deal with.
Dr. Aidoo told listeners that when the transitional committee was about to be set up, he suggested that a member from the Rawlings' family be included, and went further to name Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, but his suggestion was turned down, on the grounds that Ms. Sherry Ayittey and Kofi Adams were both coming from the Rawlings side.
According to Aidoo, though he contended that Ms. Ayittey was representing the 31st Women's Movement, whilst Kofi Adams was there as an executive member of the NDC, and for that matter there was the need to still have someone from the Rawlings family, his suggestion was still rejected.
He questioned whether his suggestion at that time was still relevant today or not, following the rumpus that was emanating from the revelations of Hebert Mensah and Ato Ahwoi.
He argued that part of the problem in the party could be linked to this idea twhich was turned down.
The former deputy defence minister disagreed with the General Secretary of the party, Mr. Johnson Aseidu Nketiah's submission that factionalism was killing the party, adding that the NDC, since its formation in 1992, had always been engulfed with functionalism.
He further disagreed with Mr. Nketiah that it was not time for the formation of groupings in the party.
Dr. Aidoo questioned whether the visit of the party's National Chairman and regional chairmen to the castle was not another way of creating factionalism in the party.
According to him, some years back, he accused Dr. Obed Yao Asamoah, a former national chairman of the party, of creating factionalism in the party, but regretted that as a result of this criticism, a leading member refused to talk to him for six good months, but it later emerged that Dr. Asamoah had indeed created factions within the party.
Touching on his own problem with the party, Dr. Aidoo said after the party had won the elections, he was asked to produce his curriculum vitae (CV) before he could be offered a job, but he declined, 'because a woman you know her face in the day, you don't light a candle to look at her face in the night.'
