The Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), has described as unfortunate attacks on them by the governing National Democratic Congress, over its\u00a0recent survey which portrayed the government in a bad light.<\/p>\n
CDD in its pre-election survey indicated that 7 in 10 Ghanaians are largely disillusioned with government and believe the country is headed in the wrong direction<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n But the NDC\u2019s Deputy General Secretary, Koku Anyidoho accused the CDD of fabricating the findings in connivance<\/strong><\/a><\/span> with the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to sour the government\u2019s reputation ahead of the 2016 polls.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”i92z6qlcLtOKYCNcqRH62wqnXdvsLton”]\u201cIt is something that the NPP cooked and they have put out\u2026 it still remains a fact that the CDD, as far as were are concerned, is an appendage of the NPP,\u201d Koku Anyidoho asserted.<\/p>\n Justifying\u00a0the survey on Eyewitness News<\/strong>, a senior research fellow at the CDD, Dr. Kojo Asante, argued that their findings are a representation of the views of Ghanaians.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is unfortunate to hear this again. CDD is 18 years now as an organization. We have been doing this work for many years, and we\u2019re respected all over and this is not the first time we\u2019ve done surveys. We have people who are very experienced in doing surveys. Our samples are open and these are the national representative sample of Ghanaians and these are their views,\u201d Dr. Asante added.<\/p>\n He also explained that the rationale for conducting the survey was \u201cbecause we want this election to be about issues.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe are 22 years practicing democracy, and we still can\u2019t get used to pre-election surveys. This is done all over the world and governments look at these things that are done by independent organizations and take from it what they can, but for us the objective is to generate discussions around the main issues that should concern any political party seeking to govern this nation. And I think that will help us shift from this personality attacks. That really does not address the bread and butter issues for Ghanaians,\u201d Dr. Asante added.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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