George Boateng’s forms ‘useless’ – Koku Anyidoho

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has asked the 40-year-old man seeking to unseat President John Dramani Mahama as flagbearer, George Boateng to follow due process by picking new forms for the contest. The former Oyarifa branch youth organizer has already picked up his forms to contest the President but the Deputy General Secretary of the party, Koku Anyidoho argues that Boateng cannot use those forms because they were not endorsed by him or the party’s General  Secretary, Asiedu Nketia.
“There is a simple procedure. The forms are given out by the Secretary. Nobody else has the mandate to sell the presidential forms,” he said. According him, at the constituency level, it is the secretaries that sell the forms to the MP aspirants, not the Chairmen and the same applies at the national level. “In fact that form the gentleman has, has not been endorsed by the General Secretary so it is a form that is null and void,” Koku Anyidoho explained. He said Mr. Boateng came to the party’s office and met some officers who gave him the forms “but they were not mandated to do so.”
Anyidoho therefore asked Mr. Boateng to take the necessary steps to pick up the forms if he is really interested in contesting. Boateng is a former aide to former first lady Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings who also challenged the late President John Attah Mills for the same position. Even though he is not a house-hold name in the party, Mr Boateng is optimistic he will be given the nod to represent the party in the 2016 elections.
 
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