Aspiring National Organizer for NDC, Mahdi Gibril has said elections are won with serious research backed with credible data and hard work.
Speaking with Bonohene Baffuor Awuah on Ghana Kasa Kasapa FM, Mr. Gibril indicated that there are situations to use courageous men among others but elections are won with hard work on the grounds.
“You see the name of the game is evidence not noise, not being courageous or being a feminist. If you don’t have data you cannot do anything meaningful. If there is no fact you will never get what you want. So, I don’t understand why people are always looking for courageous and fearless people for elections. Will you vote with courageous people? How can you use courageous people to win, it is data you need.
“You see there is intimidation in every election in the world. Even when football goes to the final, there is intimidation and it is part of the game. So, you should ask what strategy you will go with. If we are going to play a football final match in a home ground like Santiago Bernabéu, only the crowd alone can intimidate the players. So, you need to know that with where you are going there will be intimidation, how do I psyche my mind to outwit the people,” he added.
He advised the NDC to engage in hard work adding that the party has come far and will need good and credible research backed with evidence.
“If you stay idle you won’t get results. You should be able to tell how the next step you are about to make will go. You don’t just take a step because they say we are rebellious so we are coming to cause commotion, it is not done so.
“30 years of NDC, we have gone past that. In fact, to even say that you are going to contest for an organizer position in the NDC at National level and your best element is toughness, while that organization’s department is the heart of the party,” Mr. Gibril stated.
He continued: “That is the position that helps the party to think about where we are going, what do we get from this, even logistic wise how you distribute it. What you are going with courage, will it give you votes there? So, we make it look like if someone is tall and heavy then he is fit to be the national organizer. No, we have gone past that one.”
Source: Ghana/Kasapaonline.com/102.5FM/ Bernice Mensah
