Election 2024 Is a ‘Do or Die’ Affair, Whatever It Takes– Ofosu Ampofo Declares

Ofosu-Ampofo advised party members to be together ahead of the elections and avoid internal wranglings in an interview with Takoradi’s Sharp FM.

“We suffered a lot of calamities. Our founder died a few months to the elections. If it were another party, it would have given up but we managed to put our pieces together and we have managed the post-Rawlings era so smoothly. My prayer is that we remain united and go through the various elections for peace to prevail so that our party will rise for it to be strong and stable and we won’t depend on any individual to survive as a party. Because to lose the founder of your party a few months to election is not an easy task. I want to thank everybody for the unity maintained for us to move the party forward,” he said in Twi on January 21, 2022.

Ofosu-Ampofo added that, the NDC was in good health and ready to slug it out with any political party in the next general elections because it was going to be a do or die affair.

He explained that his comment was not to beat war drums but a call on party members to be alert at polling stations on election day.

“The party NDC as I speak is very strong, in good health. It is a horse that is prepared to go for the war and win the war. I can assure you that in 2024, whatever it takes, it is do or die. It is not a fight. It means that if it means we will sleep and cook at our polling stations till the results of the election are declared and the true results are transmitted [we will do that]. As for that one we are not going to compromise. We may even go to the polling station to pitch camp there a day before the elections. Do or die means at the polling station we will ensure that we are diligent, we are vigilant,” Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo stated.

Ofosu-Amofo borrrowed the exact words of former  President John  Mahama in September last year. He  mentioned that the 2024 election was going to be a ‘do or die affair’ at the polling stations.

The public lambasted him for making such an unfortunate comment because  such a  comment shouldn’t  have proceeded from a person of his caliber  but the former president maintained that it was an idiomatic expression.