{"id":388606,"date":"2018-01-04T16:06:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T16:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=388606"},"modified":"2018-01-05T06:54:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T06:54:01","slug":"nunoo-mensah-backs-spio-garbrahs-2020-bid-to-lead-ndc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/nunoo-mensah-backs-spio-garbrahs-2020-bid-to-lead-ndc\/","title":{"rendered":"Nunoo-Mensah backs Spio-Garbrah’s 2020 bid to lead NDC"},"content":{"rendered":"
A former Chief of Defense Staff, Brig. Gen. Nunoo Mensah, has endorsed Ekwow Spio-Garbrah as the best person to lead the National Democratic Congress [NDC] in the 2020 elections, describing him as the liberator and motivator of Ghanaian youth.<\/p>\n
He said the youth of the country are in dire need of someone to keep their hopes alive, a task he believes can be delivered by Spio-Garbrah.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a media event on Wednesday where Spio-Garbrah launched\u00a0 his \u2018Forward Agenda\u2019 campaign to contest the NDC presidential primaries, Nunoo Mensah said the former Minister has his full support.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have decided to be behind Spio-Garbrah in what he is doing, because I believe that even though I am 80 years old, I have a few more years ahead of me. I have a job, not only to educate my children but people of that age, those who are coming behind us ought to know where we are coming from and where we are going. Many of our youth are in great difficulties to survive, but we do not tell you. When I look at the future and look at the youth, I get very worried about the future. We have many young people that are going round the country today without any better hope of a better future, but when we are coming together as a nation to find \u00a0a solution, sometimes we base it on too much politics in our report and do not tell the truth.”<\/p>\n
“…So I am behind Spio-Garbrah, because I believe that we have to mentor the youth, I have been a young man before, and I have not been an old man for too long, what I went through as a young man, I don\u2019t want our young people to go through the same things, so I am here today, because I believe that what Spio Garbrah is doing needs support from all of us and the media in particular, to broadcast what he is doing because the youths today are like a lost sheep and need people like me, and all of us to guide and inspire them into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n