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.
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.
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: GNA
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If i were Alban Bagbin i will stop commenting about john Mahama and concentrate on his vision to want to lead the n d c,blaming someone for one thing every day amounts to hatred, more so John Mahama have never reacted to these blame games by Bagbin, if it continues then it stands to reason that john Mahama is more matured than Bagbin, once again blaming someone for same thing every day amounts to hatred,if Bagbin has any advisors at all, they better talk to him.
The true incompetent is your dwarf president who has been pocketed by Akwasi Nyantakye. Tell him to come out from Nyantakye dirty pocket wai
HON. BAGBIN KEEP ON VOMITING? YOU SPEAK LIKE THIS AND AFTER ELECTION YOU SEE YOUR BROTHER AND CAN NOT LOOK AT HIS FACE. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS. YOU WERE THERE WHEN THINGS WERE GOING ON WHAT DID YOU DO? YOU KEEP ON ACCEPTING THE POST AND ENJOYING THE PERKS NOW YOU ARE SAYING WHAT ***barred word*** FARM. WHICH ***barred word*** ARE YOU? FOR ME IF MAHAMA DOES NOT GO THE BEST PERSON WHO HAS THE CHANCE AND HAS WISDOM AND COMMAND IS PROF. KWESI BOTWE TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT HE WILL BE THE MAN TO BEAT. HE IS A GOOD GENTLEMAN ELOQUENT, EXPERIECE AND CAN TOUCH THE GRASSROOTS.
mr. Bagbin, did you know Mahama very well before you supported him to become Vice-President and then President? I think you have yourself to blame. Next time, when there is danger, save your head first before you think of saving others. Anyway, I pity you, because the war chest of Mahama is so big, you cannot win this war.
The in-competent Mahama want to be President again. It will never happen