NDC Speakout Tour, A novel lethal political ‘weapon’ 

Call it the bottom-up approach or a people-focused political strategy; whatever the case, there is something silently going on at the camp of the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that every serious political watcher mustn’t lose sight of.

I am talking about SpeakOut, as the concept owners call it, but which I prefer to call the ‘lethal political weapon’ that is cast in the mode of a Hiroshima and Nagasaki bomb.

Indeed, SpeakOut is a political deployment that mustn’t have any political opponent worth their sort go to bed with eyes open.

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History teaches us many things including the fact that when a political party decides not to play to the gallery, their electoral fortunes do not only improve, they achieve the ultimate results – victory at the polls.

The NDC may have learnt lessons from their last defeat to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) – the biggest in the country’s 4^th republican journey, that giant bill boards and fanciful rhetoric-filled rallies add nothing to a candidate’s political fortunes.

Perhaps, it’s this political lesson that has gotten the party’s flagbearer and his team to adopt the secret weapon that is knocking many people off their feet in many communities across the country.

I am referring to SpeakOut.

WHAT IS SPEAK OUT THEN?

To help you understand SpeakOut, I am going to ask you to imagine two things.

First, imagine having a former president and the flagbearer of one of your country’s largest political parties sit at the same table with you, never mind if you belonged to their political party or not.

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But even more importantly, imagine seeing your demand(s), request(s) or input(s) directly factored into a party’s manifesto just because you spoke out.

If you can describe the feelings these things bring out of you, you have captured the mood at a typical SpeakOut session.

SpeakOut sessions are community-based and opinion-gathering fora that are embarked upon by the flagbearer of the NDC, John Dramani Mahama across all of Ghana’s 16 regions.

The fora serve as platforms that give opportunity to communities to share their opinions and feelings with Mr Mahama and his team.

sOURCE: adomonline.com