The former Minister of Trade and Industry, Ekow Spio Garbrah, has stated that the National Democratic Congress (NDC), is committed to diagnosing and addressing challenges that contributed to its massive defeat in the 2016 general elections.
Alluding to the process involved in fixing a faulty vehicle, Mr. Garbrah, a former flagbearer hopeful, said the NDC is equally a “broken party” that is devising measures to revive itself for the 2020 general elections.
“The situation in our party is really one of building the party and letting it recover from a very severe electoral loss. It is just like driving a very good car and the car has an accident and it needs to be fixed so the first thing you want to do is take it to the mechanics and let the electricians do their work, check the transmission, take care of the brakes, the shock absorbers, then when the car is in a good condition almost any driver can drive it and potentially bring it to the victory line.”
“… If the car has broken down and you put the best driver in the car, the car cannot move and the car will certainly not win a race so our concentration now is to help the Kwesi Botchwey committee and the party secretariat.”
Mr. Garbrah also asked Ghanaians to stop the speculation about the party’s defeat and wait for the committee’s report.
“There is a committee of very fine brains going round to collate concerns and when they file their report we will all see where they claim or think the problems went.”
President John Mahama was defeated by the New Patriotic Party’s Nana Akufo-Addo in the December 7 elections, in what many have described as the worst performance put up by a sitting President in an election.
The NPP Flagbearer secured the presidency after a third time, beating the incumbent, President John Mahama with 53.85 percent of valid votes cast.
A 13-member NDC committee was subsequently set up to diagnose the party’s loss and make useful suggestions.
Source: citifmonline.com
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The corrupt and ev!l NDC party is going into extinction... this is a very good news for Ghanaians.
I support the assertion that, the NDC was not created as a credible political party in its own right to improve the fortunes of citizens of this country. It was borne out as a collection of hungry , jealous and mafia group like the SS in Germany after the second world war. They were afraid they would be prosecuted after their so-called 'revolution', so they had to gang together to protect themselves. It was organized with state resources as an election-rigging machine. They had and still have no intention to better the lives of the people, but to amass as much wealth as possible to always buy themselves into power. THEY HAVE NOTHING TO FIX NOW, BECAUSE THE NDC HAS HAD NO SOLID FOUNDATION.
Massa; mine take on the issue of fixing the NDC as piped up by this fante full Kwesi Botchway is simple ; how do you fix something which has and have never had a structure and created by a no less a monster ewe/ayigbe man like JJ Rawlings ; to me the NDC party have never being a political party ; it was a just a collection of illiterate ; greedy individuals who just hated hard work ; thought every body was stilling and living good and therefore decided to step in under the guise of a revolution and as politicians ; this so called uprising was just a toxic cocktail of arrogance ; tribalism and the desire to steel state assets and funds and live good ;the tribalistic nature of the NDC was exhibited by the then mediocre soldier JJ Rawlings who could not pass his flying exams ; he planted in the Ghanaian mentality the evil thought of tribalism assisted by his distant relatives Kozxo Tsikata; Fui Tsukata; Tsikata ; Awoonor Williams who for some reason thought the ewes were this unique race and therefore must rule Ghana the opposite was the case and forgot that the ewes were did not have anything in the volta region to generate wealth ; the Ashantis were far ahead and produced most of Ghanas GDP all the wealth of Ghana came from the Ashanti region ; this planted tribalism roped in these idiotic fantes;northners and 'Nkofio' Gas who fullishy followed JJ Rawlings and were used to prop JJ Rawlings and forget how important they were in Ghana ; the result was the utter destruction of their chiftancy by JJ Rawlings by these ewes ; today the Gas have not learnt their leassons and still follow this full JJ RAwlings and the NDC; today the northners have taken over the the NDC ; these ewe stillers are no where to be found because of their stilling habits any stilling inciodent and there is bound to be an ewe involved ; the fantes were used by JJ Rawlings since ARkaaah to Amissah-Arthur and spat out ; as for Gas they still the macho idits who still sleep otside their homes whilst they have rented their homes as stores to outsiders ; they do not even have a voice ; WHAT A JOKE ; even the so called NDC cannot define its existance ; what are they ; are they socialist sect or a capitlist sect ;NOBODY KNOWS ; their current leadership are far more that capitalist they thiff masqurading as politicians ; to me the NDC can not be FIXED because there is nothing to be FIXED !!!!!!!!
I indeed support the former Minister of Trade and Industry- Dr. Ekow Spio Garbrah's laudable submission and I pray that all NDC supporters will wait for the findings of a 13-member NDC committee set up.