“I challenge Martin Amidu and whoever to defend the Constitution of the NDC and to defend the Constitution of Ghana by pinpointing those who are alleged to be corrupt,” Mr. Yalley said on Eyewitness News.

[contextly_sidebar id=”b6kUxpLK9vA3hmdfvXXP9KSEBWv2C0xE”]Tensions within the NDC have seen a former deputy Chief of Staff, Valerie Sawyerr attack Mr. Amidu and former President, Jerry John Rawlings for having hypocritical stances on corruption, among other biting assertions.

Mr. Amidu, in a response to her, said he would continue to defend Ghana’s constitution and not be intimidated by members of the NDC.

The former Attorney General stressed that his “war” against the Mills/Mahama Government was rooted in the looting of GHc 51 million by the Government and Alfred Agbesi Woyome.

He vowed that he would continue to fight the looting and protection provided to Mr.Woyome by the NDC government, which he said undermined the Constitution.

But Mr. Yalley insisted that the corruption claims surrounding Mr. Woyome, who has been hounded Mr. Amidu for almost four years after a GHc 51 million judgment debt was unlawfully awarded him, should not reflect on the NDC as a party.

But if there were people who benefited from the GHc 51 million, Mr. Amidu was free to name them, Mr. Yalley added.

“If there are individuals in the NDC, who are accomplices of the Woyome crime, he [Martin Amidu] has the right to mention them rather than smear all of us with that kind of situation.  If Martin Amidu has evidence of anybody in the NDC who might have gotten a dime out of that situation, he should mention their names.”

“We formed NDC because we believed that, as social democrats, we are not going to be backed down by Woyome’s onetime corruption which is being used to smear everybody. If we are corrupt, what about those who went to funerals and donated money to him?”

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The committee among other things recommended that some structural changes should be adopted by the party to ensure its victory in the 2020 elections.

[contextly_sidebar id=”Q6ixFYcRKKrcZvVBH4XiEg9t8qtIeD2K”]According to a senior member of the NDC, Sam P. Yalley, the party needs to re-organise its structures to make it a formidable force for the next general elections.

“We lost the elections at the polling stations and at the branches that is why we are talking about the constitution and reorganizing our branches.We also should look at the issue of acrimonious primaries and after the primaries, we did not institute a very good re-conciliatory system to put the candidates together. We need to accept them and move ahead. If everything was right, we could have won,” he said.

He is however advocating for the party headquarters to be made the party’s coalition centre during elections to facilitate information flow and intelligence.

“Some of us are of the view that no activity should take place outside the party headquarters because during the elections, many people have problems that they have to rush to the party headquarters to explain, but when they go there, nobody is there and everyone is at a coalition centre elsewhere. We are advocating that in the next election, the party headquarters should be the location for all activities,” he said.

The 13-member committee set up by the NDC to probe its defeat in the 2016 election, presented its findings to the National Executive Council (NEC) on Monday.

As part of its recommendations, the committee asked the NDC to take a holistic look at its biometric electoral register.

The 55-paged report, titled, ‘listening to the grassroot’, said the NDC must take urgent steps to restore the integrity of the register.

Speaking at the presentation of the report, the Chairman of the Committee, Prof. Kwesi Botchwey, expressed hope that the recommendations will help capture power for the NDC in the next elections in 2020.

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