Mr Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament has described former President John Dramani Mahama’s administration as an 'Animal farm' government.
He said in his ‘Animal Farm,’ administration, ‘monkeys were working, while baboons chopped.’
“That is why you had unknown people appearing from nowhere and getting top appointments. While people like you and other Executives who had toiled for the party had been ignored.
Mr Bagbin a leading contender for the 2020 flagbearership of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), stated this in a meeting with communicators of the party at his Job 600 office complex at Parliament House.
The party communicators who met the flagbearer hopeful instigated the revelations when they questioned why they should support the candidature of Bagbin when he finally files his nomination.
Their point was that they had toiled in the recent past to get former President Mahama into office, but when he became President, they were abandoned.
Most of them said they were jobless and impoverished from neglect from their own party for eight years and asked why they should commit to help any other flagbearer hopeful for the party.
Mr Bagbin, who had already promised a paradigm shift from that of former President Mahama’s style of governance, explained that former President Mahama appointed outsiders into his government because he was not familiar with true party people.
According to him, the former President’s unfamiliarity with true party faithful was due to the fact that unlike everyone else, President Mahama had not really worked his way through the ranks of the party.
He said in 2004, while, he was Minority Leader, he had to make time to campaign for Mahama in his constituency where the NDC Presidential votes in the Parliamentary elections had been diminishing because he was not in touch with the grassroots.
He said he knew all party true-bloods who continued to sacrifice for the party and therefore, deserved to be rewarded appropriately.
“It is not for nothing that I have said I will make the party the fulcrum of my administration, if I am elected flagbearer and eventually win to become the President, I know our people and respect their efforts,” Mr Bagbin said.
An elated crowd of party communicators who had been momentarily jolted out of their despondency broke into songs of praise for Mr Bagbin with lyrics of the song portraying him as the only one who could build Ghana with integrity and also reward the sacrifices of deserving Ghanaians.
The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament took the opportunity to remind the communicators that he had nothing against former President Mahama and pointed out that following the untimely death of late President Mills in office in 2012, he Bagbin was one of the people who lobbied to ensure that the former President, who was then Vice to President Mills, was allowed to go unopposed as Flagbearer.
He also pointed out that former President Mahama’s sudden elevation to the Vice Presidency had resulted from efforts from people within the party, including himself and the time had come for a paradigm shift in the party.
He said former President Mahama’s administration neglected party faithful, leading to pain amongst members and even the founders and leaders
Mr Bagbin said he was rich experience, having served as Minority and Majority Leader, through which he also served as member of the NDC’s Functional Executive Committee, National Executive Committee and Council of Elders.
Source: Graphic.com.gh
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Same mistake Mahama made, same mistake Nana Addo is making and same mistake you propose to make. Sharing posts party faithfuls instead of better qualified Ghanaians.
instead of using the small money you got from politics to help your poor people in the Northern region,you want to waste it thinking you can become a president. Are the Norther politicians serious in life at all? Your Northern brothers and sisters are drinking the stream of mud called water and you don,t feel ashamed to help them. the likes of bawumia,ayarigas,bagbin,karbo,hajia alima mahama,former president mahama just to mention a few don,t have the wisdom to help the deprived northern region get clean water to drink but they are rather fooling around here in accra.
The monkey farm administration did not favored Algban Bgabin but what shows that after the total failure of a northerner from the same party you can relief Ghanaians? The presidency of the N D C head must come from a different region, Western/ Ashanti/ Eastern or Brong Ahafo Region.
So you guys put up a story and the headline is Mahama’s Government Was An '***barred word*** Farm' Administration - meanwhile those of us who comment can not type ***barred word*** because you have barred the word. Are you guys really okay?
But Bagbin was part of the John Ford Mahama's ***barred word*** farm government...... What did he Bagbin do about it? Why are you now telling us? NDC is simply made of people without integrity.... Now that you are competing with him you are saying this to us ... Too late. Mahama will defeat you and destroy the NDC party.
Even though i don't support NDC, i think that Bagbin is talking rub..bish. you have been in politics for more than 20 years, have you been able to find job for all the NDC supporters in your constituency? Bagbin is just a talkative with zero action.
This is ru-bb-ish.You were a minister under President Mahaha what do you do? Please get it into your head, Mahama will beat you in any contest never dare contest him if you do, you will see your smoothness level. Anyway, who were the outsiders are you referring to?