Leading member of the (NDC), Ato Ahwoi, has disclosed that he was the person who convinced the late Minister of Defence, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, to join the (NDC).

According to him, he got the late Omane Boamah to join the NDC when the late former President, Prof John Evans Atta Mills, asked him to recruit all former presidents of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) for the party.

He said the late Defence Minister, whom he described as one of the most important persons he had ever met, was at that time a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). "I managed to convince Omane to join the NDC after I had been instructed by Professor Mills to recruit all past NUGS presidents. "He was then with the NPP and did not like the NDC, but he became very close to me, like a son," he said in an interview on Metro TV's Good Morning Ghana on Friday, August 8, 2025.

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