Kwesi Botchwey’s Committee cannot halt the work of NEC - Anyidoho

The Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress [NDC] Koku Anyidoho has refuted claims that work of the National Executive Committee [NEC] will interfere with that of the Prof. Kwesi Botchwey’s Committee.

The NDC after their electoral defeat in the 2016 general elections formed a committee to probe the defeat of the party.

There have been claims that NDC NEC working with the UNDP on a policy document is in conflict with the Kwesi Botchwey Committee as it is not ready with its report to guide the party in the next election.

In response the deputy secretary said “National Executive Committee gave Kwesi Botchwey Committee the power to operate. They didn’t fall from the sky and so we still have power to go on with our duties to help the party. We cannot fold our arms and even not breathe because Kwesi Botchwey Committee is working, no way.”

He added that “the NDC NEC mandated the Kwesi Botchwey Committee to carry out this small task to see the way forward; it doesn’t mean that minus Kwesi Botchwey Committee, we cannot do any other work.”

Anyidoho indicated that the policy document started last year before the 2016 election. What the NDC NEC did last weekend at Elmina was the continuation of what started last year, before the Kwesi Botchwey Committee was set up to look into the cause of the party’s defeat.

He stressed that the policy document has nothing to do with the work of the Kwesi Botchwey Committee as this policy document will help the NDC in future; the two are therefore mutually exclusive issues.