Member of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kojo Adu Asare says his party has cut ties with\u00a0policy think tank, Center for Democratic Development (CDD).<\/p>\n
\u201cOur General Secretary [Johnson Asiedu Nketia] has already come out to tell Ghanaians that NDC has seized to corporate with anything that CDD is involved in and explanations have already been given to that. That is what my party position is,” he said on Citi FM<\/strong>‘s news analysis programme,\u00a0The Big Issue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This follows a survey conducted by the CDD which\u00a0indicates that, majority of Ghanaians believe the country is headed in the wrong direction<\/strong><\/a><\/span> and nearly half blame this \u2018completely\u2019 or \u2018mostly\u2019 on the government.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”jGuJCudttxTcUoRS5j5erWGt5wNT56VL”]Following the report, NDC communicators have on several platforms rubbished the survey and accused the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) of masterminding it.<\/p>\n Adu Asare who is also a former Member of Parliament for the Adentan constituency argued that several surveys conducted by the CDD go against the NDC and usually favour their biggest contender, the NPP.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have reasons to believe that they are not fair to us as a party. Whatever they\u2019ve done in the past has never inured in any way to our benefit as a party and they\u2019ve always been biased towards the NPP and because some surveys they\u2019ve done in the past pointed that the NPP was going to win the elections and it turned out not to be so,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n Conduct your own survey<\/strong><\/p>\n However, President of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe also speaking on The Big Issue<\/strong> admonished the NDC to desist from such attacks.<\/p>\n \u201cThe perpetual penchant for this idea of neglecting what every civil society group does is really worrying. I think what they should be doing in this case is that, I would have expected the NDC to have conducted series of polls by now by themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n Disregard NPP-inspired CDD survey<\/strong><\/p>\n The Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Koku Anyidoho said the CDD report “is something that the NPP cooked<\/strong><\/a><\/span> 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<\/p>\n NDC\u2019s attacks on us unfortunate<\/strong><\/p>\n CDD had earlier described the attacks from the NDC as unfortunate<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n 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 <\/p>\n Follow the hashtag <\/em>#GhElections<\/strong> on Social Media for election related stories\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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