Former President John Mahama has urged members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to abandon the debate about which individual gets to lead the party in 2020 and focus on the more pressing task of helping the party regain power.
Speaking at a funeral in Bole on Sunday, Mr Mahama said that it was too early for the NDC to be having discussions on who leads the party for the 2020 election.
He said of greater priority was the need for the NDC to mobilise support for the party at the grassroots ahead of 2020.
He said that all party members must rather work hard to mobilise support for the party, especially at the grassroots, according to a report by mynewsgh.com.
Mr Mahama refused to be comment on his future in the party, saying that whatever God had ordained could not be changed.
He urged supporters of the party to continue to be patient and also pray for him.
“Sometimes God delays [for] good things to come one's way," he was quoted as saying by mynewsgh.com.
The debate on who should lead the party is threatening to tear the NDC apart.
While some party executives, such as National Orgainser Kofi Adams, are of the view that Mahama is the NDC's best bet for 2020, others, like Koku Anyidoho, have railed against public endorsements of the former president who lost massively to Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party in the last election.
Anyidoho even went ahead to state that leadership rotates, while emphasising that his relationship with Mahama was purely professional.