The Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer vetting committee, Edward Doe Adjaho, has dismissed claims that the party forced businessman Ernest Kobeah to withdraw from the race.
He insisted that Mr. Kobeah was not disqualified from the race because he voluntarily dropped out.
Ernest Kwaku Kobeah handed in his resignation letter to the NDC’s elections committee on Wednesday, March 29.
Mr. Adjaho told journalists after the party’s vetting exercise on Wednesday that Mr. Kobeah “indicated that it was voluntary.”
A former Speaker of Parliament was enthused by the performance of all three flagbearer hopefuls during the vetting.
“If you look at the Constitution and guidelines, for example, you must satisfy the qualification eligibility prescribed in the 1992 Constitution. You have to satisfy the party’s constitution, and you must also satisfy the guideline issued by the National Executive Committee (NEC). All of them did well before us, they all satisfied the conditions,” he remarked.
Meanwhile, former President John Dramani Mahama, a former Finance Minister Dr. Kwabena Duffour and a former Kumasi Mayor Kojo Bonsu have been cleared to contest in the NDC’s May 13 primaries.
After the balloting for the presidential primaries, Mr. Mahama picked the first slot on the ballot, Kojo Bonsu, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor picked the second and third slots respectively.
