Big Endorsement for Mahama …As 94 NDC MPs back him for election 2020

The MP for Odododiodoo Constituency, Edwin Nii Lantey Vandapuye, has disclosed that a whopping 94 National Democratic Congress (NDC) Members of Parliament, out of the vurrent 106, have endorsed former President John Dramani Mahama to lead the party in the 2020 elections.

According to the former deputy sports minister, who is also leader of the MPs, they had decided to endorse John Mahama because a lot of Ghanaians want him back.

Hon. Vandapuye, who disclosed this to the media on the sidelines of an event to rally support behind Sammy Gyamfi as NDC National Communications Officer, said John Mahama would surely wrest power from the NPP.

“I can tell you that we have 94 MPs who have faithfully and critically endorsed our former President, John Mahama, to be the candidate once again. This excludes our leaders. We decided to keep them off, but we are sure all our leaders will be supporting us soon.”

He explained that “The grassroots of this country, the majority of Ghanaians are crying for John Dramani and as such it will be wicked on our part not to listen to the plea and cries of Ghanaians by giving them who they prefer. So we are bringing back John Dramani Mahama and we are very sure in our minds that Ghanaians will this time accept him and overwhelmingly vote for him to become the next president in Ghana in 2021,”.

Although the race for a presidential candidate has not yet started, the media is awash with permutations that several members of the NDC including Nadowli-Kaleo MP, Alban Bagbin, Dr. Spio-Garbrah, former NHIA boss, Sylvester Mensah, Joshua Alabi, former MP for La-Dadekotopon, Nii Amasah Namoale among others, have given indications they would contest the flagbearership position.

If the number of endorsement from the NDC caucus in parliament churned out by Hon. Vandapuye is anything to go by, then one can confidently say that the former president has so far bagged the support of 88.7% of the party’s supporters.