Opare Addo challenges NDC to preserve broad coalition that delivered 2024 victory

George Opare Addo, the National Youth Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has urged the party to carefully consider its future direction as it prepares for the upcoming elections. He urged the NDC to decide whether it wants to maintain the broad, modern and inclusive coalition that was instrumental in its 2024 victory or revert to a more traditional partisan approach.

Mr Opare Addo noted that the NDC's 2022 national executive elections, which saw the election of Johnson Asiedu Nketia as National Chairman and Fifi Fiavi Kwetey as General Secretary, marked a political reset for the party. He emphasized the need to attract the middle class while engaging young professionals, entrepreneurs, students, organised labour, the business community, and ordinary citizens to secure a diverse electoral coalition.

The NDC's "Green Army" mobilisation strategy played a crucial role in demonstrating how young people could be organized around ideas and political consciousness, he noted. Opare Addo warned against complacency following the party's success in the 2024 elections, stating that political victories were temporary and that relevance depended on continuous effort.

He challenged delegates to consider the kind of NDC that Ghana needed—a modern, intellectually confident, and inclusive party capable of winning support among the middle class without alienating the working class. He urged them to focus on building a political architecture that could inspire young people without weaponizing them, and mobilize millions without creating political fear.