Referendum: “I’M FOR YES” - Collins Dauda


Member of Parliament for Asutifi South, Alhaji Collins Dauda has thrown its weight behind a decision to make assembly elections partisan.

Hon. Collins Dauda explained that electing local-level leaders on a partisan basis would cure the winner-takes-all syndrome which is pervasive in Ghana’s body politic.

“I believe that it is not a bad thing to have a country where a minority party, the opposition party or any third party that loses power nationally, has an opportunity, if the people so choose locally, to also share in the executive power at the local level by participating to elect their own person as an MMDCE”, he explained.

“We can’t be blind to certain facts”, he said, explaining: “You sit in Accra and parties have different strongholds in different parts of the country; NPP is in government today, it could leave government the next day, when it is in government, it controls the entire territory in terms of executive power. What is so wrong in saying that when NPP is in power and in those strongholds where the people still prefer that the NDC be the government in power, why can’t we have a system where, at least, at the local level, the NDC can also have MMDCEs who are elected on the ticket of the party?”

“I will campaign for ‘YES’ vote”, Mr. Dauda said.

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