Tamale, Feb 06, – Mr Samuel
Ofosu-Ampofo, Director of Elections of the National Democratic Congress (NDC)
has advised party members to adopt “the Jehovah Witness and trotro-mate
theories” to ensure effective party organisation to recapture power during the
2020 polls.
He said “our approach to party
organisation must be based on the Jehovah witness’ principle of making sure
that we knock doors , talk to people, be consistent with our messages, be
focused, and results-oriented” adding once we adopted that theory, we would
make a headway.
He also explained “the theory of
trotro-mate and passenger philosophy” saying “the mates are focused on the
passengers, determined to get on them board their vehicles, they run to help
the passengers carry their luggage onto the vehicle” adding “So once we focus
on the people, they get to know that we are concerned about their welfare, that
is the bottom line of organisation, they will relate very well to us.”
Mr Ofosu-Ampofo was speaking in
an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Tamale over the weekend after
facilitating a training organised by the Ghana Institute of Social Democracy
(GISD), the NDC’s schools, for the NDC’s communication team members in the
Northern Region.
About 320 party members
including; communication team members of the NDC in the region benefited from
the two-day training, which focused on political leadership, political
communication and party leadership to amongst others build the capacity of members
of the party to help in its re-organization drive.
Mr Ofosu-Ampofo said the party
should adopt a strategy of bottom-up approach to writing its manifestos by
going to the grassroots, sampling their opinions to ensure that the manifestos
reflect the wishes and aspirations of the people.
He said the party was working to
ensure that it did not restrict its congresses to only elections but also to
debate policy issues and agree on policy positions that the party wanted to
adopt to reflect the aspirations of the people.
He advised party members not to
discard local knowledge saying “When we go to the communities to work, do not
think that you are the organiser and so you know everything, get down with the
people, and find out their challenges” to help fulfil their aspirations.
Mr Ofosu-Ampofo also spoke about
the performance of the one-year old government of the New Patriotic Party
describing it as abysmal saying it was “a walking contradiction” as it was
doing the exact opposite of what it promised the people.
Mr Peter Boamah Otokunor,
Registrar of GISD and Deputy Director of Research of NDC said the party was
expanding the training to cover more members and topics to help in its
re-organisation drive to recapture power in 2020.
Some of the participants
described the training as useful as it had enlightened them about the history
of the country, the party and its ideals as well as how to effectively prepare
themselves to communicate well to achieve impact.
GNA
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