The National Democratic Congress legislator for the Wa Central Constituency, Rashid Pelpuo has described as mysterious results of the 2016 polls.
According to him, the NDC did everything possible to fulfill the needs in the country yet the people of Ghana kicked them out from power.
He made the comment on Citi FM’s News analysis programme The Big Issue, on Saturday in defence of former President John Mahama’s recent remark on the cause of the NDC’s defeat.
Mr. Mahama while speaking at the World Economic Forum in Durban, South Africa on Thursday, noted that he had an “incumbency disadvantage” hence his abysmal performance in the poll.
He also accused Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of promising Ghanaians “heaven.”
“I knew what the economy could give the people and I told the people the truth that we need more hard work to be able to get out of where we are; my opponent promised heaven and you have the constraints of not being able to promise all the rosy things he was doing,” he added.
Meanwhile, Mr. Pelpuo noted that “this is one of the elections that have been very difficult and mysterious to understand.”
“You have a government that is responsive to the needs of the people, you have a government that built schools, they [Ghana] wanted roads, we built roads, they wanted hospital, we built hospitals, they wanted water, we supplied water, we did everything that was possible to ensure that the people of Ghana know that this is a government that is responsive and responding to their basic need and creating conditions for them to be able to develop themselves individually and creatively.”
“In the end the same people voted against us as if we didn’t do anything at all. We built and international airport harbours. It has never happened in the history of this country for a single government to even build about 50 secondary schools at a go within a space of four years… After doing all these things we thought we had touched the mind, the thinking and we are striking a chord with Ghanaians. In the end we got the worst votes that had ever been recorded since 1992,” he lamented.
Mahama loss by about a million votes to Akufo-Addo in the polls.
The NDC also lost hold of a number of Parliamentary seats to the New Patriotic Party.
Source: adomonline
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MR MAN YOU LOST THE ELECTION BECAUSE AS FOLLOWS; 1. BAD ATTITUDE 2. CORRUPTION 3. ARROGANT 4. EVILS ACT 5. INCOMPETENCE 6. CREATE LOOT AND SHARE SYNDROME 7. APPOINTING BABIES WITH SHARP TEETHE AS MINISTERS 8. THE CAUSE OF PROF. MILLS DEATH 9. WAYOMI'S SAGA 10.INSULTING MEN OF GOD AND ELDERS 11.HIGH COST OF LIVING 12.IMPLEMENTATION OF UNNECESSARY TAXES 13. ARROGANT S OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS SO ON AND SO FORTH
NDC lost the election because of the economic hardship Ghanaians were going through and gross disrespect of Ghanaians by ndc communicators. some of them has not learnt their lesson there are still behaving as if they are in government
Hon Rashid, It's not about what you did. It's about what you could have done had our resources been applied judiciously. Also, your party should forget about rigging and short cuts to winning elections in Ghana again. We are wide awake always. Thanks to the election petition.
This guy should know they didn't build 50 senior secondary schools but 50 school blocks. Their ignorance or rather deception on their loss is even more embarrassing
i find it difficult to understand why the NDC as a party are refusing to accept that their heavy electoral defeat was because their election rigging machine has been uncovered and crashed. they will do themselves a lot of good if they come out of that deceptive mood and help their innocent followers to come to terms with the realities on the ground as far as elections in Ghana is concerned, otherwise 2020 will be worse for them.
Hon Rashid Pelpup.Aoo so you dont know why your party lost the elections? Did you hear of Sada tree planting and guinea fowl project? What about the metro mass bus branding scandal? You heard of isofoton. woyome over priced contracts, sole sourcing, muntie 3, arrogance, disrespect, impudence and profilgate expenditure etc. You know arrogant guys like fiifi kwetey, kojo Twum Boafo, ofosu kwakye, Okujeto Ablakwa etc. THESE ARE THE REASONS GHANAIANS REJECTED YOUR YOUR PARTY.
This tells you how DUMB Mr Pelpuo and the whole NDC party are. They lived in the f0000l's paradise and are still living there. They are completely dazed and yet to identify why they lost the elections. Only 1diots will believe that roads and schools can win them elections. I'll commit suicide if the NDC regains power after 8 years. They'll remain in opposition for long, especially when the voter's register is properly CLEANED. They are in real sh*t!