A former National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP, Teye Nayunu let loose on some elements within the party for, among other things, sidelining the Jerry John Rawlings during the 2016 campaign.
Among other things, leaving Mr. Rawlings off the campaign team was an “expensive experiment and it cost us,” he stated on Eyewitness News.
It was for reasons like this that Mr. Teye Nyaunu said “we all saw defeat coming” during the elections that saw the NDC Flagbearer and sitting President, John Mahama, suffer the worst election defeat in Ghana’s democratic history.
Singling out the Greater Accra Region, he said defeat was inevitable and the NDC made a last ditch attempt to salvage the region with the 74 million euro Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, which was inaugurated in November 2016, three weeks to the December 2016 polls.
“All of us knew that we had lost Greater Accra. We saw it in advance and we were trying to use the overhead at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle to galvanize the people.”
He also cited a failure of leadership as contributing to the defeat saying, “… I saw the defeat coming when I saw we had lost the leadership. When I saw that everybody was doing what they liked, what even Stan Dogbe and the rest were doing at the Flagstaff House.”
We can’t blame Rawlings for defeat
Mr. Teye Nyaunu comments followed an article authored by former Deputy Chief of Staff, Dr. Valarie Sawyerr who slammed Jerry Rawlings’ criticisms of the NDC, even opposition, as needy and controlling.
She also held that Rawlings contributed to the NDC’s election defeat with his criticism of the party.
But Mr. Teye Nyaunu said it would be illogical to blame someone not deemed important to even help the campaign.
“If he is nobody like we all claimed from the beginning, that we can win minus him, why then turn around and begin to blame him? We said he is nobody and so we rejected him during the campaign and he was sitting in his office and in his house and we went to the polls and we were humiliated.”
Source: citifmonline.com
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What some of the NDC gurus are not seeing is a constant or factor which is the driving force within the party. The Rawlings factor (R-factor). If NDC want to get closer to the 44% they had in 2016 during the 2020 election and beyond, then they should reconsider the R-factor. Other than that they may not get even 30%. Lot of Ghanaians are angry because of the manner the NDC messed up, as the ex-MP has indicated.
The NDC party is a congress of thieethieevvvvinnnggg and incompetenttttt rottenness. Under marginally free and fair, marginally, because losing Mahama brought Charlotte to rig, after Asiedu Nketia hit a road block in their world bank, they lost the elections which they have been losing for a very long time but for rigging. As elections become increasingly free and very fair, NDC can never win elections in Ghana because of thiiieevvveeryyy and total incompetenceeeeee. We were all here when Mahama said the interchange was going to create how many jobs? Has it happened? But ***barred word*** has happened that we know. This cannot be a party that should come anywhere close to even assemblyman elections, fact.
MTN is not a member of the NDC so he should not talk as though he is a member of the NDC. He has no justification to say anything at all.
There are no metal bridges in Dubai so nobody should try to ***barred word*** Ghanaians that the structure at the Kwame Nkrumah circle is a replica or synonymous to what is in Dubai.The deceit syndrome must end now.614725
Thank you MTN, asem no ara na aka'n. Tell those still ranting on after the electoral defeat to pull their selves together. and stop whining like divorcees who lost on marriages due to their horrible characters. Adze no entum nny3, na s3 ese ibotum ay3 a, ono dze woara wo gyegyeregye. Enyim y3 a, y3 bi ma yenhw3