Comrade Odarteifio Files Nomination For NDC Youth Leadership

Comrade Steven Nhyira Odarteifio (R) during the filing of the forms

Comrade Steven Nhyira Odarteifio has formally filed his nomination to contest the position of National Youth Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), pledging to transform the party’s Youth Wing into a platform for economic empowerment, leadership development and sustained political mobilisation.

He submitted his nomination forms at the party’s national headquarters in Adabraka, Accra, outlining a vision that places job creation, access to economic opportunities and youth participation at the centre of his campaign.

Speaking after filing, he said his candidature was driven partly by the recurring transitions between the NDC and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), which reflected the failure to build sustained political support among younger generations.

“Over the past 30 years, all of us have been tired of the baton changes between the NDC and the NPP. Eight years in, eight years out,” he said.

He argued that the NDC needed a more effective youth leadership structure capable of connecting with the aspirations of young people and building a generation of committed supporters beyond a single election cycle.

Drawing lessons from some Asian economies, he said policy continuity and sustained political leadership were important to long-term economic transformation.

“My office shall reshape the entire Youth Wing of our party to ensure that our young people, through the Youth Wing, are empowered to be a blessing to every young person in this country,” he said.

He expressed confidence that a more economically empowered Youth Wing could strengthen the party’s electoral fortunes and help secure a prolonged period of NDC governance, with a 20-year stay in power as his stated ambition.

Central to his campaign is a proposal to reposition the Youth Wing beyond political mobilisation towards facilitating access to jobs, finance, technical skills, entrepreneurship and markets.

He believes the organisation can link young people to opportunities, including the Adwumawura Programme, the National Apprenticeship Programme and the One Million Coders Programme.

He brings experience spanning international finance, public policy, agribusiness and development programming. He is a former research analyst at Goldman Sachs and currently serves as Head of Food Systems at the World Food Programme (WFP) Ghana, where he coordinates approximately US$40 million in donor funding for food and nutrition security.

His previous engagements at the Ministry of Finance and the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) included work on 50,000 acres of agricultural land under the Ghana CARES Agricultural Programme, securing US$6.1 million from the Mastercard Foundation and helping mobilise US$80 million for agricultural infrastructure across three regions. His campaign says the interventions have expanded opportunities for more than 100,000 young Ghanaians.

A graduate of Ashesi University with a background in Computer Science, he has more than a decade of experience across investment banking, management consulting, agribusiness, agricultural finance and food systems.

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