Atta Mills meets NDC Tri-State.
Keeping to his believe that politics can, and must be played above board, NDC Presidential Candidate, John Evans Atta Mills, has once again reiterated that members of the NDC must be accommodating of ideas that may not be in sync with theirs.
John Evans Atta Mills, who has consistently said that it is impossible for all human beings to think alike, put it out that it is those who are able to accommodate opinions that run contrary to theirs, who end up standing tall in society. The NDC Presidential Candidate made the point when he met with the New York Chapter of the NDC on Sunday.
According to Prof Atta Mills, it is only when the NDC is able to listen to, and accommodate, other opinion (positive ones of course), that the party would shape better its policies and ideas and be able to give Ghanaians the kind of leadership they deserve. “Let’s appreciate differences in opinion” John Evans Atta Mills said. Drawing from his almost 30 years of teaching as well as his collective experience as the Head of Ghana’s Internal Revenue Service and being Vice President of the Republic, the NDC Presidential Candidate said that his ability to give an ear to all those who needed to be heard, in no small way helped him climb the ropes.
“We must not consider our political opponents as enemies and therefore shut our ears to everything they say. In as much as we differ in political line of thought, we would be doing ourselves a very great disservice if we obstinately refuse to listen to the other sides of the political divide” Atta Mills added. The NDC Presidential Candidate said that there is no way he would Head an NDC government that would adopt the arrogant “Let them have their say but we would have our way” politics of exclusion mentality because “A president has to be a president of the nation and not a president of a political party”.
On behalf of the tri-state NDC, Dr. J.S Annan, a staunch supporter of the party and aspiring NDC candidate for the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem Constituency, thanked the NDC Presidential Candidate for the able manner in which he is leading the party and the words of wisdom that he continues to share with not only NDC members, but with Ghanaians in general.
“We have been monitoring your extremely innovative house-to-house campaign back home and if your hectic schedule here in the United States, as well as the nation-building messages you have been espousing, is anything to go by, then nothing is going to stop us from supporting you, and getting our kith and kin back home, to also stretch every sinew to give you the mandate to rebuild our nation Ghana” Dr. Annan said.
On a personal note, Dr. J.S Annan, who works with the United Nations and whose White Plains Home played host to the gathering, said that it was the statesmanlike leadership style of John Evans Atta Mills, the social democracy philosophy of the NDC, and the monumental failure of the NPP, that is getting him to resign from the UN and return home to throw his support behind John Evans Atta Mills and the NDC for Ghana to reclaim its glory and lost pride.
“Dr.” Rokoto, one-time TV star, and staunch member of the NDC, was among the numbers present to interact and share ideas with the man who is most certainly in pole position to become the next president of Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana.
