The NDC Professionals Forum has congratulated former president John Mahama for winning the flagbearership race of the party over the weekend.
Mahama polled a whopping 213,487 votes representing 95.23% of the total votes cast to beat the six other contestants to lead the largest opposition party in the 2020 general elections.
President of the NDC Professionals Forum, Amb. Sam P Yalley, in a statement said they are ready to support Mahama to win the 2020 general elections.
Below is the full statement:
The NDC Professionals Forum wishes to place on record its appreciation for the historic presidential primaries held on Saturday February 23 2019. The peaceful, orderly and professional manner the entire process was organized, yielded an equally historic and emphatic outcome with the election of His Excellency John Dramani Mahama as the Presidential Candidate of the party for Election 2020.
With pride, joy and great expectations we congratulate him and say ayeekoo for a professionally run campaign that eventually paid off with the kind of resounding victory he had.
From the election results it is very clear that our former and soon to be next President of Ghana still enjoys the confidence, trust and loyalty of the entire Party. It is an unequivocal mandate which arose out of his own fighting spirit, tenacity, confidence and strength of character.
We note with satisfaction the clarion call in his acceptance speech in which he said “…it is a call to duty, a call to action and a call to battle”.
We also appreciate his desire to create a platform that harnesses the full potential and effective participation of the professionals in the NDC and we on our part also pledge our readiness to partner him to win the 2020 Elections to salvage Ghana from the current morass under the NPP.
We are fully confident in his person and able leadership and hold ourselves in readiness to provide total support in areas of our expertise in the preparations towards December 2020.
The struggle ahead will not be an easy one. The viciousness and malice with which the NPP has conducted itself towards President Mahama has been unrelenting since Election 2016 to the present. The attacks and calumny will intensify now that he is the Presidential Candidate of our Party. As professionals, we wish to serve notice of our ever readiness to provide appropriate responses to any such provocation.
We however pray that in the name of peace and stability of our country the NPP will play by the rules of decorum and responsibility.
Finally, the Forum would like to thank the general membership of the NDC, the leadership, our own Forum members and Team JM for the admirable exercise in democracy which produced our Presidential Candidate for 2020.
Amb. Sam P Yalley
President
Accra, February 25 2019
Source:Starrfm.com.gh