A leading member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alban Bagbin has suggested former presidential staffer Stan Dogbe was inexperienced in managing former president John Mahama.
According to the second deputy Speaker of Parliament, the expertise of Stan Dogbe was wrongfully utilized by Mahama during the last NDC administration, something he claimed, “contributed greatly” to the party’s loss in the 2016 elections.
Mr. Bagbin who has consistently been critical of Mr. Dogbe, in a yet-to-be aired interview with TV3 and 3FM said the former presidential staffer lacked the wherewithal in managing Mahama.
In his view, though Stan Dogbe has a great expertise in media, that was no trump card for him to have been made a presidential staffer.
“You know Stan Dogbe is very good when it comes to media, you can’t take that away from him, and he has amassed a lot of knowledge and experience in that area. He has a very good command of English language and he writes very very well,” Mr Bagbin said.
He however said “when it comes to managing a president, you need more than technical expertise and I think that it is not for nothing that people say experience is the best teacher, it’s not for nothing”.
Stan Dogbe has widely been blamed by some NDC members and political analysts for playing a key role in the loss of the NDC in the 2016 general elections.
Mr. Bagbin who is Nadowli Kaleo in 2013 raised issues about the way Stan Dogbe handled the presidency when he said: “If characters such as Stan Dogbe are those managing the President John Mahama then our president is naked”.
Asked by Media General’s Kwakye Afreh-Nuamah whether Stan’s conduct contributed in any way to the party’s defeat, he responded in the positive saying, “He did greatly; he did”.
He maintained that managing a President is job for experienced hands so he did expect the backlash he got for raising that issue.
“Wisdom comes from not just from knowledge but it also comes with hands on experience and so even the issue that I raised as at that time and received that blistering attack from him was surprising to me”, Mr. Bagbin said in the interview to be aired Tuesday, May 29.
Source: 3news
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bagbin, take time! If i meet u, i wll give u a dirrrty old s-l-a-p for an old man like u
Are u now crying? U cried about this, but u did nothing. Funny old man
Aaah , they coming events always cast their shadows . Mr Bagbin AYEKOO, for coming out with this hard truth, will never forget about the independent Day brochure
hon bagbin eeeh, ad3n what at all has mahama done. even if he is a de.vil, God has not yet ki.lled sa.tan so what is ya point. if you contesting, do so honourable and stop those attacks, the more you respond to every triviality, the more you expose yaself as incompetent for the seat you planning to contest. do clean campaign bcx some of ya responses are read without the questions from the other which makes you bad in the eyes of the people. the more people talked about nana, the more populaar they made him and won so cant you learn that, as often as you guys attack mahama, the more you make him get sympathy votes to win as flagbearer most especially having the cash to do so? or maybe will wanna sort out ya anger with mahama in the press?. rem politics is dynamic and anything can happen so pls, though am not in ya party and wont ever vote for you, is not fair of those attacks. i like you, do clean campaign and i hope you or slyvester wins but seem impossible to overthrow mahaha most especially now the islmaic cleric i respect a lot has predicted. be with mahama, maybe if we wins in 2020 which is impossible, you may be appointed to a more relevant position