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0 NDC General Secretary, Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, says the party must hold itself to a higher moral and political standard if it wants to lead Ghana’s reset agenda with credibility.
Speaking on Joy News’ PM Express on Tuesday, he insisted that the NDC cannot build public trust by simply attacking the governing NPP while repeating the same conduct it condemns.
“One thing I’ve always said is this, you can’t simply be attacking your opponent when you were doing exactly the same thing as your opponent,” he said. “So that hypocrisy, for me, is not something that we should encourage.”
The NDC General Secretary also acknowledged that his insistence on values and principles may not always be popular inside the party, and could even affect his personal political prospects.
“You must be ready for consequences,” he said, stressing that he is willing to defend what he believes is right, even at the cost of my political ambition.”
Responding to host Evans Mensah on what message he carries to party delegates, Mr Kwetey said he is not introducing any strange ideas.
He argued that the party’s anthem already captures the values he is advocating, including the duty to put Ghana first.
“The delegates are delegates of the National Democratic Congress, and they sing with pride… the anthem of the party,” he said, adding that the anthem speaks to the need “to always place our country as number one.”
According to him, the problem is not that the party lacks values, but that many may have lost sight of them.
“The fact that you may not fully understand, it doesn’t mean that effort must not be made to help us all remember and be anchored on those values,” he said.
Mr Kwetey tied his argument directly to the NDC’s public message of resetting Ghana, insisting that the party must first demonstrate that reset internally.
“We have said we are resetting the country. And to reset the country means business as usual has to be over,” he stated.
He rejected what he described as simplistic partisan thinking.
“You simply cannot expect that everything is done. NPP is bad, ndc is good. No, NPP is bad. But it doesn’t mean ndc is perfect,” he said.
He said the party must improve itself in order to produce better leaders for the country.
“Our party must become better and better, because that’s the only way we can produce leaders who truly will be able to place this country where it ought to be,” he said.
For him, attacking the NPP alone will not be enough. “Simply accusing the NPP is no, it’s not enough,” he stressed.
Mr Kwetey said the NDC owes the public more because of the responsibility placed on it.
“To whom a lot is given, a lot is expected,” he said, adding that “the people of Ghana have given us a lot of responsibility.”
He said the biggest obligation is to the youth.
“We owe it to, especially the young generation of Ghanaians, to make sure that the examples we are setting are different examples,” he said.
Mr Kwetey also downplayed the obsession with personal ambition in politics, saying his focus is on national transformation.
“For me… it’s not an ambition. It’s about transforming our country,” he said.
He ended with a reminder that political leadership is temporary, but values must endure.
“I’m here today, tomorrow, I’m not going to be here,” he said. “But let’s make sure we are putting down foundations and putting principles that would make the party greater and stronger, and that will make the country greater and stronger.”
