A TOP member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ashanti Region has described the party’s 2016 embarrassing defeat to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as the “mother of all defeats.”
Alhaji Sanni, a former deputy Ashanti Regional chairman of the NDC, who made the remarks, also predicted that “no political party will suffer such a humiliating defeat in Ghana politics again.”
He stated whilst being interviewed on Hello Fm in Kumasi, “The NPP defeated us badly in 2016 and I can predict that no political party will suffer such an embarrassing defeat as the NDC suffered again.”
No Collation Centre
Alhaji Sanni disclosed also that the NDC did not have a collation centre in the Ashanti Region during the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections, resulting in the party’s poor performance in the region.
He stated that the NDC did not prepare properly for the important elections, yet the leadership of the party constantly bragged that winning the 2016 elections was a done deal for the NDC.
False Campaign
He noted that the NDC’s campaign message was laden with blatant lies, stressing that the party’s prediction of winning staggering 1.5 million votes in the Ashanti Region was just a political slang.
According to him, the grounds were not fertile for the NDC, especially in the Ashanti Region, prior to the 2016 elections, “Yet they constantly bragged that they would win more votes in the region, which was a lie.”
‘Ignore Party Executives’
Alhaji Sanni sternly warned the NDC leadership not to include the Ashanti Regional executives in the party’s team that would be visiting the region as part of the healing tour that the Prof. Kwesi Botchwey committee suggested.
According to him, most of the executives failed to deliver and so the grass root members of the party are angry with them, stressing that including such people in the tour might have serious security implications.
No Blame Game
The former regional chairman also admonished the NDC to shun the blame game, insisting that every member of the party is at fault, regarding its shocking defeat.
Source: Daily Guide
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No comment, all said. This is just the beginning. A vibrant opposition party is necessary to keep the ruling party on its toes. The NDC should remain in opposition till they go back to creche and gradually progress primary, learning how to respect, and be accountable.
Alhaji your analysis has been objective but it is too late because your party is in opposition and unfortunately they are not learning from their mistakes. They keep peddling lies and false hood even in opposition. When a political party has no respect for intellectuals this is where it leads them. Thanks to the vibrant media, the Ghanaian is becoming discerning each day.
Yes, the NDC were relying on Charlotte Osei to rig the elections in their favour and that did not happen, hence the humiliating defeat. The NPP did well, they did not give any room to the EC to rig the elections. Bravo NPP.
Before NDC can win elections , unless the change the current party national executives. NDC change the wining team and chose the loosing team.This current national party executive are greedy.
NDC GET ALL THE RESULTS STATISTICS AND STUDY IT CAREFULLY. I BELIEVE THERE WERE MEGA ***barred word*** ACROSS.
Only one reason led the NDC into opposition = THE BAD STATE OF THE ECONOMY.....
Alhaji, this is the correct size of NDC....
For the past 6 months, NDC still have NOT known what caused their MOTHER OF ALL DEFEATS. NDC was hopefully that EC will do their usual rigging for them to win. They did but Almighty God prevented them by causing their rigging machine spoil underway ie. 8th and 9th December, 2016.
NDC CAN NEVER WIN ANY ELECTION IN GHANA. ALLGHANAIANS INCLUDING THEIR WORLD BANK NOW KNOW THAT THE PARTY IS EXCEEDINGLY CORRUPT!!!!!!!
Thankfully, the NDC is still engaged in the same lie peddling that they admit caused them the "mother of all defeats". Actually, the NDC was confident that Charlotte and the EC were going to do the usual rigging for them so they didnt bother about collation centres. Na-niama! See that after the ghost Togolese were prevented from voting, and the ***barred word*** was checked by NPP agent we've recorded a "mother of all defeats"? We're going to clean the voter register even more, and register all the youth who are eligible to vote. Then we will know those whose electoral victories are only hinged on rigging. Fire burn you NDC!