Duffour pulls out of NDC’s presidential primaries

Dr. Kwabena Duffour, former Finance Minister, has formally withdrawn from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearership race.

This, he claims, is due to the party’s failure to address his concerns about the party’s impending primaries, particularly the voter registration procedure.

The former governor of the Bank of Ghana revealed that the NDC presidential election was marred by several irregularities, a problem that has yet to be remedied by the party’s leadership.

As a result of this, he has stated that he will no longer run for the NDC’s flagbearership. However, he stated that he will remain in touch with the grassroots.

“As at this time, the party has begun distributing the ballot papers to the various regions and constituencies without our involvement. I wish to reiterate my commitment to the party and grassroots, however my concerns that the party is not ready to conduct free and fair elections is evident for all of us to see,” Dr Duffour said.

He added: “Taking part in such an event will be acting to knowing drinking from a poisoned calabash. After consulting with my support base nationwide, I have been left with no choice but to withdraw as I cannot contest in an election blatantly flawed with irregularities regardless of all my effort to draw attention to the same.”

Earlier on Friday, Duffour dropped the action he had brought against the NDC, citing irregularities in the party’s voters registration to be utilized for the exercise that his team had discovered.