A soul-searching exercise has been commenced by the National Democratic Congress to investigate reasons the New Patriotic Party beat them in landslide during the 2016 general elections.
The party has formed an Election Review Committee to be chaired by Prof. Kwesi Botchwey; to review and validate reasons they may find in the course of the exercise. The 13 member committee is expected to begin their work in the Greater Accra region next week beginning with the Madina and Adenta constituencies.
Based on the committee’s itinerary, a former parliamentary candidate for Bawku Central and a leading member of the NDC, Alhaji Ibrahim Dori has called on them to have a special session with their Founder and former President Rawlings before starting their nationwide consultations.
According to Alhaji Dori it was necessary for the committee to reach out to their founder first because it would only take a person like him to help the NDC weave its way back to power.
Speaking to Peacefmonline.com, the NDC scribe noted that: “the founder of the party on several occasions reechoed the possibility of NDC loosing this elections but his outburst never received any rapt attention from leadership of the party.
Ex President J. J Rawlings, a grassroot man seems to know in details most of the fundamental mistakes, actions and inactions of the party that led to our defeat. When you listening to him on various platforms, you get the conviction that he indeed knows what he is talking about”.
In an address to the press at the NDC’s headquarters, Prof. Botchway stated that the committee shall receive statements and testimonies through interviews, focus groups, letters, audio recordings, and other forms of information gathering.
He mentioned that their mandate is to review what happened to make recommendations based on what they will gather from their work.
The committee he noted has been structured into three groups for purposes of conducting consultations and hearing across the country.
But before embarking on the mission, Alhaji Dori entreated them to do a one on one with their founder first before publishing a final report.
“I'm therefore appealing to the committee to have a one on one with the founder of the party Jerry Rawlings, solicit his views and take cognizance of what he says and factor it into the final report as we patiently wait for the report”, he said.
The committee is expected to conclude its work in 90 days.
Source: Chris Joe Quaicoe/ email: [email protected]
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This NDC charade is admission of the fact that NPP beat them fairly and squarely.In 2012, NPP diagnosed their defeat as massive rigging and went to court. The impact of that decision is waht has manifested in 2016 elections.I bet you, the solutions for the NDc defeat lie within the party itself. You can sit in your room and enumerate the causes. Some include,arrogance of power, insulting opponents, show of affluence, creating/***barred word***/sharing cash, dubious contracts, lack of transparency, refusal to tell the truth as it is, and the mother of all, DAYLIGHT CORRUPTION, which encompasses everything. This committee will come back with things they will not like to report on. DON'T S AY I DIDN'T TELL YOU.
Fact finding mine FUT !!!!! ; can they not the party has NO GROUNDS ANYMORE !!!!! with misfits; inexperience people and educated illeterates; disgruntled with envy in their hearts and mind because their parents did not send them to school or were sent to school but refuse to learn anything ; THIS IS THE NDC FOR YOU !!!!!;they shout on roof top that they can manage things but end up displaying gross incompetence besides you do join a party for what you can get ;you a join party for what you can contribute to the party not being a liyar and a ;'MACHO' man and presenting alternative truths ; the answer is right amongst NDC members
Dear Prof, You can save your energies because you don't need any fact-finding mission to reveal to you the cause of the loss of your party. Truth is, the real number or close to the real number of registered Ghanaians voted in the elections. Over voting and rigging entirely were eliminated by the watchful eyes of Ghanaians. Ask yourself why the NDC dropped over 23,000 votes in just a single constituency in the Volta Region. Maybe you could download the 2012 and 2016 results from this page and compare. Rest respected Prof
An exercise in futility. Time wasting...
you do not need any fact funding. the answer is corruption. create loot and share with so call development projects which are sources of your corruption.
Funny how these people behave. Committee to investigate what? I laugh enter veep residence
Non***barred word***, who is Rawlings? Peacefm stop calling such id*iots including NPP's talkative and fake lawyer Yaw Oppong who has been hopping from one radio station to the other defending NPP's bogus actions including Otiko and others nominations.
Dori, that is if the so-called founder would open his doors. I doubt very much that this self-righteous messianic so-called founder, who has problems with so many in the party, would open his doors and meet the committee. JJ and his wife have got the results they wanted
Do it thoroughly and be very objective. Let the knife cut both sides (those who were active and those who sat on the fence) dispassionately. This is certainly what puts NDC a step ahead of NPP. The appreciation of self introspection unlike the antagonism that confronted "Chasing the Elephant Into the ***barred word***".