Haruna Iddrisu, the Minister for Education, has thanked Ghanaians who see him as presidential material.
According to Haruna Iddrisu, he does not know what his future holds, but he will serve Ghana in any capacity as he is doing.
He emphasised that it is not only as president that one can serve Ghana.
Speaking on GHOne TV in an interview with Serwaa Amihere, Haruna Iddrisu stated, “I don’t know my tomorrow, but I’ll serve this country in any capacity as I’m already doing, it is not only in the office of the president that you can contribute to the public good or the distribution of public goods and services.
I should thank those people who find me fit to want to be president or want to run for president or want to support me for president, but God time as I have always said…”.
When asked directly if he wanted to be president, Haruna Iddrisu stated, “ I thought this is to be answered by God; if I live to see tomorrow and live to see the future, it will determine what I will do with my life”.
However, a latest poll by Global InfoAnalytics has revealed that Haruna Iddrisu, the Minister for Education, is still in the lead as the preferred candidate to succeed President John Mahama for the NDC.
The Global InfoAnalytics poll shows Haruna Iddrisu in a lead with 29.8 per cent, while NDC National Chairman Johnson Asiedu Nketia secured 24.1%, and Finance Minister Ato Forson, who garnered 18.4% support.
Chief of Staff Julius Debrah is also in fourth with 10.3%, while Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa came fifth with 8.1%.
Other contenders Eric Opoku recorded 2.5%, Prof. Joshua Alabi 2.2%, and Armah Kofi-Buah 2.0%.
Kwame Awuah Darko (1.6%), Spio Garbrah (1.1%), and Okoe Vanderpuye (0.1%) were at the bottom of the poll as the least preferred candidates to succeed John Mahama.
Additionally, Mustapha Gbande, the Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has told party members to kill the conversation surrounding who succeeds President John Mahama.
According to Mustapha Gbande, he is determined that President Mahama must succeed.
He emphasised that if the National Democratic Congress fail Ghanaians, they can bring Jesus Christ as a presidential candidate, they will still go to the opposition.
Speaking on JoyNews’ News Desk, Gbande stated, “I am determined that President Mahama must succeed, and that is my focus in the meantime,” he stated.
“That is also the focus of the larger and majority of individuals in our party. We cannot fail the masses, we cannot fail you, we cannot fail the people of Ghana. So let us kill this conversation for now. That discussion is one for when the time is right.”
“We just came to power, and we are yet to give a full account of our one-year term,” Gbande said.
The NDC Deputy General Secretary added, “In the proper context of political transitions, there has never been a time when any government has, within nine months, been met with the kind of expectations we now face”.
“Our trump card will be our performance. If we fail, we can go and bring Jesus Christ to come and lead the party; we will still go to the opposition,” he warned.
Gbande also took a swipe at the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), saying, “The only luck we have is that the alternative is not something anyone would want to venture into. Currently, they are enemies of the state and very disorganised”.
“We are happy that these polls are coming, no two ways about it, but I am saying that this is not the time to engage in that conversation”, he added.
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“I don’t know my tomorrow but I’ll serve this country in any capacity as I’m already doing” – Hon Haruna Iddrisu pic.twitter.com/IynD5vaPy7
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