Asiedu Nketia who is the General Secretary of the NDC has retained his position.
Provisional results show that Mr Asiedu Nketiah beat Samuel Koku Sitsofo Anyidoho by an overwhelming margin.
Anyidoho polled a mere 1,625 votes after ballots were counted in an election in which over 9,000 delegates voted.
Many questioned Kku Ayindoho's decision to contest Asiedu Nketia and this provisional results clearly depicts what many said.
Asiedu Nketia had endured a barrage of accusation from some party stalwarts including former Central Region Chairman, Bernard Allotey Jacobs, who urged party delegates to vote him out.
According to Jacobs, some executives at the party’s headquarters had organised themselves into a mafia and are stalling the progress of the party ahead of general elections in 2020.
However, after sorting of ballots was done at the Fantasy Dome where the NDC held it’s national delegates’ congress, the piled up papers for Mr. Asiedu Nketia far exceeded what Koku Anyidoho obtained.
Asiedu Nketia continues his tenure and is set to become the party’s longest-serving General Secretary.
Earning the nickname ‘ General Mosquito’ for his lanky frame, the former NDC MP spent 12 years in Parliament before stepping down graciously in 2004.
He had wanted to join his wife in Canada. But that travel was not meant to be after his party's rank and file mounted pressure on him to take up the position of General Secretary of the NDC.
At the party’s delegate congress in December, 2005, he won by almost 80% of the votes to become the 3rd General Secretary of the NDC.
At a re-election contest held in Tamale in January 2010, he was delivered a 93% vote of confidence. In the 2014 version, Abdullah Ishaq Farrakhan could only get 606 to Johnson Aseidu Nketiah’s 2685 votes.
Under ‘General Mosquito’, the position of NDC General Secretary became the least challenged. Koku Anyidoho’s entry had held the potential for a scare. But it turns out, Koku has been scared.
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