Asiedu Nketia to establish “independent” women’s wing in NDC

Johnson Asiedu Nketia is General Secretary of the ruling NDC We have a very weak women’s wing; we have a very weak youth wing. At times when you go to the field [and] you want to meet the women’s wing,… you meet members of an NGO Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary, NDC The General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Aseidu-Nketia, has vowed to get rid of parallel women’s organizations within the party if he is elected to serve a second term. “We have a very weak women’s wing; we have a very weak youth wing. At times when you go to the field [and] you want to meet the women’s wing,… you meet members of an NGO,” Mr Asiedu Nketia said. “The NDC constitution recognises a fully-fledged women’s wing and that is what we promised you,” he added and stressed that such a group “must be able to generate its own programmes and carry them out.” Launching his bid for re-election, Mr. Aseidu-Nketia suggested that the party’s main women’s wing has been hijacked. Sources within the party say his comment were in apparent reference to the 31st December Women’s Movement, led by former first lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings but he rejected the suggestion assuring he does not intend to collapse the mnovement. The movement - whose main patron, former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings is seeking to be Vice-Chair of the party - has been the main organiser of the women’s wing of the NDC, a situation sources say Mr Asiedu Nketia has not been happy about. The NDC General Secretary wants the women in the party to be independent from and capable of running their own chapters without the influence of other organisations. Source: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana