The Member of Parliament (MP) for Sagnarigu, Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini, wants the finger pointing at former President John Mahama to cease, in the wake of growing intra-party tensions in the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
As the Dr. Kwesi Botchwey-led committee aimed at diagnosing the party’s loss in the December 2016 elections continues its work, there have been allegations of the misappropriation of campaign funds with some saying Mr. Mahama hijacked campaign funds and marginalized the party.
But the Sagnarigu MP, speaking on the Eyewitness News’ Point Blank segment, rubbished such claims. “I don’t think that anybody would say that the President marginalized anybody from the campaign. How would anybody say he marginalized the party when the General Secretary was the leader of the campaign team. Kofi Adams was the Campaign Coordinator and important segments of the party were involved in the campaign.”
“How are you running a campaign and not having access to resources? How can you be living by the river and wash your hands with spittle?” Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini quizzed. He further suggested that, some of these unfair allegations were borne out of frustration at the party’s loss in the election. “To lay it at the doorsteps of President [Mahama] and say that he deliberately marginalized anybody and kept resources from people is not a fair thing to say now. It is just because we lost power and people can come out with all these rationalizations.”
Mr. John Mahama is convinced the NDC will “bounce back in 2020, and has said members of the party must help to strengthen the party’s base to ensure that it returns to power, a point Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini agrees with. “If the NDC is able to put its act together and were able to reorganize, I can tell you the machinery that we will have in 2020 will be a formidable one that will catapult us back into power,” the MP said.
Source: citifmonline.com
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NDC MADE A BIG MISTAKE BY THE APPOINTMENT OF KWESI BOTWE COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE NDC LOSS. IT WAS TOO EARLY AND LOUDLY. IT WAS A BAD DECISION AND THE RESULT IS REALLY CLEAR. THE VARIOUS POWER BROKERS IN THE PARTY WERE LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITY TO FLEX MUSCLES AND THAT DECISION PROVIDED THE FORUM FOR THAT. YES WAS IMPORTANT TO INVESTIGATE THE LOSS BUT IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE SLOWLY AND MORE AND A BIT IN THE QUITE IN ORDER TO CONTROL THE FLEXING OF THE MUSCLES. UNLIKE NPP NDC MIGHT NOT SURVIVE THE OUTBURST.
What happened to the much touted "MOST UNITED PARTY" in the world as you guys insinuated the NPP and Akufu Addo were the most disintegrated organizations in the world. I remember at Cape Coast when the NDC launched their campaign where we saw all those who mattered in the party holding hands together to ostensibly show their closeness and togetherness as against that of the NPP who at the time had suspended some of their top executives for disobeying party rules. Today we have all seen how disintegrated they NDC were/are. You can never hide a pregnancy forever.
Dreamer, when will you wake up from these dreams? Recall some presidential staffers just before the 2016 November elections! "John Mahama will win with minimum margin of 64%", " John Mahama, onaapo!", and the likes....