Activist and lawyer Oliver Barker-Vormawor has raised sharp concerns about the ideological direction of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), questioning whether the party still represents the true spirit of the left in Ghanaian politics.
In a lengthy post on social media, as sighted by MyNewsGh, Barker-Vormawor stressed his historical and ideological alignment with leftist politics, highlighting empathy and the liberation of the masses as his guiding principles.
“It is that duty that led me to the CPP, as the only party with proven leftist statecraft.
Rawlings of the AFRC carried the aspiration of the left alternative. A resurrection of a project incomplete. But when the PNDC rolled back around, it brought with it the neo-liberal priorities of foreign capital. It was by all accounts an ideologically confused regime.”
He argued that while the NDC continues to describe itself as a party of the left, it has become “a pale shadow of its ideological rhetoric.”
According to him, a genuine leftist party should dismantle corrupt elite structures, protect the environment, and ensure that resources serve the people and not foreign capitalists. “A true left will end galamsey. But also secure the mines for the people, not foreign capitalists,” he declared.
Barker-Vormawor was particularly emphatic that the governing party must prove its commitment to socialist principles through radical reforms.
“Left politics means that the NDC must be prepared to impose the death penalty on those who rob the people dry. My job is to push the NDC till it shows signs of its ideology.
“Else I have a duty to replace it with a party committed with Catholic fervour to the struggles of the working-class people. So committed that the corrupt elite will quiver in their boots.”
For him, the central question remains whether the NDC, now holding power, can rise to the challenge of its professed ideology.
“Ghanaians must live in dignity. And only a socialist left can achieve that. Only the left can secure society for the many and not the few!” he concluded.
