National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, says the NDC was the first political party in Ghana to adopt universal member suffrage for its presidential primaries in 2014. Speaking in an interview on JoyNews on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026, Mr Asiedu Nketiah explained that political parties conduct two different types of elections. He said the current internal elections being conducted by the NDC were not affected by the recent Supreme Court ruling because they concerned only the party’s internal leadership. The NDC chairman recalled that the party introduced universal member suffrage in 2014 and successfully conducted its presidential primary under that system. Mr Asiedu Nketiah added that he believed the challenges encountered were manageable and could have been resolved over time, which would have allowed the system to become fully established by subsequent election cycles.