Ashanti region now one of NDC’s strongholds -General Mosquito

The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has confidently declared that Ashanti region has now become one of the strongholds of the NDC.

According to him, NDC will soon share Ashanti votes equally with the NPP and that there is nowhere in Ghana now “which is a no-go area for the NDC”.

To him, gone were the days when people confidently said that the Ashanti region was “a no-go area for the NDC”.

He said since 1992, anytime the NDC won 25 to 30 percent of Ashanti region votes in every general election in Ghana, the party consequently won the national elections and assumed the rein of power.

Addressing party faithfuls as part of his ‘Thank You Tour’ of the Kwadaso Constituency at Kwadaso Beposo School Park in Kumasi recently, General Mosquito, as he is popularly called, expressed that he knew “the game was already over” as soon as preliminary collation results indicated that the NDC had won some 35 percent of Ashanti votes in the last general elections.

He emphasised that the “Thank You Tour” was to show appreciation to the chiefs and party supporters for their respective roles, which contributed to the party’s victory in 2024.

General Mosquito said the vision of the party under his leadership is to turn the “no-go areas” into strongholds of the NDC, which was a project he personally initiated in 2024 for the Ashanti region and together with the able leadership of the party to reach out to every nook and cranny in the region.

He said the NDC votes in the region at the 2024 polls is a testimony of that project through which the party won over 2 million votes across the country more than the NPP in the general elections.

The NDC national Chairman said Ashanti was also one of the four regions, which soared NDC’s over two million votes and that the party’s own collated results indicated that they had won more than 10 parliamentary seats in the region.

General Mosquito said the NPP managed and “twisted NDC’s hands” to take away four of the eleven parliamentary seats particularly those which results were close to call and the party (NDC) reluctantly relinquished, having won a landslide victory in both the presidential and parliamentary majority.

He said he was aware of the hostile environment in which the party members operate in the region and admonished them to exercise restraint in their demands and expectations from government giving the assurance that things are gradually taking shape and everybody would get his share.

Nana Tieku Owusu-Ansah II, Atwima Akyeamehene, bemoaned the deplorable state of the major roads in the Kwadaso Municipality, emphasizing that it did not befit the status of Kwadaso in the centre of Kumasi as a municipality.

He said the NDC votes appreciated quite well in the constituency in the last general elections and lamented that the major road from Kwadaso Owhimase, Denchemuoso through Atwima Kwanwoma to Manso Nkwanta, Agric Kokode, Woamase to Apire, Denchemuoso to Institute of Planning and Technology (IPT) and Hill Top Junction through Asuoyeboa were not just deplorable, but also posed serious health hazards to residents of these communities.

The Regional Minister, Dr. Frank Amoakohene and the MCE for Kwadaso, Mr. Eric Assibey, in their earlier remarks enumerated the number of ongoing development projects the NDC led government is undertaking in the region.

From Thomas Agbenyegah Adzey, Kumasi

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