The Central Regional Public Relations Officer of the National Lotteries Authority (NLA), Mr Joshua Sika Nartey, has launched a scathing attack on the founder of Global Info Analytics, Mr Musa Danquah, over what he describes as “a deliberate attempt to control the political narrative against the John Mahama administration”.

Speaking on behalf of the National Soldiers for John Mahama and other grassroots supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Nartey expressed strong disapproval of Mr Danquah’s recent succession polls, describing them as “hostile, misleading and dangerous to party unity”.

According to him, the surveys — released just 9 months into President John Mahama’s current administration — risk pitching leading figures of the NDC against each other.

“Individuals such as Chairman Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, Hon. Julius Debrah, and Hon. Cassiel Ato Forson have achieved a lot within this short period, but instead of highlighting these successes, Musa Danquah is sowing seeds of discord through premature succession debates,” Mr Nartey said.

He further warned that such projections could negatively affect the personalities involved “mentally, physically, emotionally and financially,” stressing that the conversation around succession was “too early and unfortunate”.

Mr Nartey called for greater focus on government initiatives such as the Big Push infrastructure agenda, the National Apprenticeship Programme, Edwumawura, and Ghana’s current single-digit inflation. He argued that these achievements, alongside debates on whether Ghana was on the right development trajectory, should dominate national discourse rather than divisive succession polls.

“In as much as succession is inevitable for every institution, our group believes the timing of this discourse is wrong and must be curtailed immediately,” he stated, urging party members and Ghanaians to reject what he termed “orchestrated distractions”.