Mustapha Gbande, the presidential Staffer and Deputy Director of Operations at the Presidency, has said President John Mahama gives each constituency GH¢20,000 monthly to service the party.
The NDC deputy General Secretary highlighted that the move is to reinforce the NDC’s grassroots structures and ensure that executives at all levels are resourced.
Speaking to a gathering to follow NDC members, Mustapha Gbande disclosed, “For the first time, regional secretaries and field chairmen assumed the responsibility of regional ministers. If you go to the regions, about eight or nine executives of every region have been appointed to the government.
And if you go to the constituencies, about eight to ten executives of every single constituency have been appointed into some office of government at some level,” he revealed.
Gbande added, “Today, as we speak, twenty thousand cedis go to a constituency every month to service the party. And it comes straight from the President”.
“As we speak, if you look at the form and shape of governance that has been formed, Ghana has never had the kind of government we have today. The support we got was so diverse that it didn’t just come from NDC people, so you realise that at some point he appointed some strangers into our mix,” he added.
In related news, Mustapha Gbande has told NDC members to kill the conversation surrounding who succeeds President John Mahama.
According to Mustapha Gbande, he is determined that President Mahama must succeed.
He emphasised that if the National Democratic Congress fail Ghanaians, they can bring Jesus Christ as a presidential candidate, they will still go to the opposition.
Speaking on JoyNews’ News Desk, Gbande stated, “I am determined that President Mahama must succeed, and that is my focus in the meantime,” he stated.
“That is also the focus of the larger and majority of individuals in our party. We cannot fail the masses, we cannot fail you, we cannot fail the people of Ghana. So let us kill this conversation for now. That discussion is one for when the time is right.”
“We just came to power, and we are yet to give a full account of our one-year term,” Gbande said.
The NDC Deputy General Secretary added, “In the proper context of political transitions, there has never been a time when any government has, within nine months, been met with the kind of expectations we now face”.
“Our trump card will be our performance. If we fail, we can go and bring Jesus Christ to come and lead the party; we will still go to the opposition,” he warned.
Gbande also took a swipe at the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), saying, “The only luck we have is that the alternative is not something anyone would want to venture into. Currently, they are enemies of the state and very disorganised”.
“We are happy that these polls are coming, no two ways about it, but I am saying that this is not the time to engage in that conversation”, he added.
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Mustapha Gbande say the presidency sends 20,000 cedis every month to every Constituency….
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