Mr Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament has partly attributed the electoral defeat of the National Democratic Congress in 2016 to President Mahama who allegedly surrounded himself with political greenhorns.
He said: A sheep had led a pride of NDC lions into defeat because the President had surrounded himself with disrespectful political greenhorns who insulted everybody and cut him off from the leadership of the party.”
Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Ghana News Agency after making some allegations on an Accra-based Radio station, the Nadowli/Kaleo Legislator likened former President John Dramani Mahama to a sheep that had led a pride of lions to a crushing defeat in the 2016 general election.
“I am sure you know – ‘when a sheep leads lions into battle, they will be defeated, but when a lion leads sheep into battle, they win’,” Mr Bagbin said in an exclusive interview with the Ghana News Agency.
“Former President Mahama had led the country without the party. The evidence is clear, even our respected founder who is revered even by our opponents was eventually estranged from his own baby. Ask yourself, what could ever make a mother abandon her own child? It should tell you that President Rawlings was really pushed away,” Mr Bagbin said.
He said the NDC failed woefully in power under Mahama because the government which had abandoned the party, had also abandoned the pillars of politics.
The pillars of politics, he said included; the media, technocrats and the party itself as the mother ship that were woefully abandoned to their fate.
“As a party, we have been so unfair to our own media. My heart bleeds that we had been in power for eight years and it was under our reign that our own newspapers, such as The Enquirer and the Palaver collapsed.
“Today, where is The Republic, where is The Ghanaians Voice? Even Montie is struggling to come back on air. We were in power for eight years and we did nothing to build our own mouthpiece. But in modern day politics, the media is everything because every political party has good plans and works hard to achieve them; but while on it the people must see the genuine efforts even if results are hard to come by. Without the media, how do you get the people to appreciate your effort?”
Mr Bagbin said, one of the woes of the NDC was because it allowed the NPP to capture and control the media landscape and that it was even more in their alleged disappointing performance.
“It is not that we do not have technocrats in the NDC, we have, but the NPP attracts more. And even the ones that we have, we are pushing them away because we think politics is a matter of charity.”
Mr Bagbin said the party should change the mind-set of their faithful as the solution to the myriad mistakes that made the party unpopular in 2016 polls.
“We must first and foremost be clear in our minds that politics is not only about sacrifice; people who sacrifice must benefit when the opportunities come around. Therefore we must build our media, empower them also to become empires like our opponents have done with theirs. We must put in place measures for technocrats to feel welcomed in our party and we must make our own party sustainable in these turbulent seas called politics.
“We must also not forget our grassroots; you are an ingrate to ride on their support and sacrifices into office and then when you get there you abandon them and say you are father for all,” he added.
He said efforts were underway to put the party back on a winsome footing and that could be achieved only when the party hierach respected the recommendations of the Professor Kwesi Botchwey recommendations.
Source: GNA
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Let us accept people's view and such is democracy. Hon Bagbin is an insider of the NDC. People of the NDC were supressed by the virtue of being in power then. Hon Bagbin said it before that Stan Dogbe, Randy Abbey and a host of such didnt permit senior members of the NDC access to the then Prez Mahama. WHO IS DISTURBING THE NATION???
AM VERY DISAPOINTED IN BAGBIN WHAT DOES HE WANT TO ACHIVE? IS HE TRYING TO PLEASE RAWLINGS OR WHAT. DIDNT HE SEE OR HEAR WHAT RAWLINGS AND THE WIFE DID TO THE NDC WHERE WAS HE WHEN AT ANY PLATFORM RAWLINGS GET HE DEPRESS HIS OWN PARTY TO THE ADVANTAGE OF THE NPP. LOOK AT THE DISRESPECT THEY SHOWED TO THE ASOMDWE HEHE A MAN OF PEACE AND FEW WORDS EVEN IN HIS PAINFUL DEATH RAWLINGS DID NOT SPARE HIM ALL BECOURSE NANA KUNADU WANTS TO LEAD THE PARTY TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT. WHAT ADVISE DID HE GIVE THE RAWLINGS AT THAT TIME WHEN HE WAS GIVE AMMUNITION TO THE NPP TO DISTROY THE NDC? WAS THIS NADOLI MP NOT SORPRICE TO HEAR NANA ADDO THINKING RAWLINGS FOR THE YOEMANS JOB HE DID FOR HIS VICTORY. IF AT HIS AGE HE WANTS TO STILL POLISH THE SHOES OF RAWLINGS HE SHOULD GO AHEAD AND LEAVE JOHN MAHAMA AND THE NDC ALONE. HECAN GO STAY IN THE HOUSE OF RAWLINGS AND WORSHIP HIM AND THE WIFE WHO SAYS HE IS VERY HAPPY THE NDC IS IN OPPOSITION. AN TELLING YOU THE NDC WAS WELL BRANDED UNDER PROF. MILLS. HE BROUGHT A LOT OF GOOD PEOPLE TO ASSIST THE PARTY. SO MANY I CAN NOT MENSION. LOOK AT PROF. SEFA DEDEY. THE KAKRA ASSAMUAH AND BROTHERS AND MANY MORE WHO UNDER NOMAL CERCUSTANCES WILL HAVE NOTHING DOING FOR WITH THE NDC WHY IS HE NOT HAPPY THAT NEW COMERS CAME TO JION THE NDC?
Dis guy wat is he up to infact he should stop talking because mahama is 100 times better dan him he talk about rawllings someone who's wife formed a party and her husband supported her please Weared not ***barred word*** oooo
I believe hon Bagbin is making a good point in my view,we need not to undermine his contribution towards our great party and his brilliant suggestion moving foward. All what he was saying is factual i saw it.We could not build our own media.
You can find a better alternative to become the preferred NDC flag-bearer rather than smearing Mahama. You know most of the lies NPP used to outwit NDC and the struggles they are going through now trying to keep their challenging promises. You can find much better strategies because it is now easier for NDC to campaign.
Hon Bagbin, John Mahama himself admitted full responsibility for the defeat of the N D C in 2016, so what you are saying is not new, again the fact that John Mahama have never responded to these attacks by Bagbin makes me feel Mahama is a more matured politician than Bagbin, and if i were Bagbin i will stop talking about John Mahama, my advice to Hon Bagbin is 'When you talk, you are repeating what you already know, but if you listen, you may learn something new'
You were part of Government, what do you do? Stop this childish behaviour. Mahama will defeat you any day you dare contest him.
Who's this one too
But this Bagbin guy was appointed a minister? What did he do? Nothing! Talk is cheap...... Your colleague NDC ministers were deliberately taking double salary for years..... NDC is a gang of cr!m!nals......
IS THAT THE "DOUBLE SALARY GENERAL", THROWING PUNCHES LIKE THAT? OTOKUNOR (NDC REGISTRAR) AND THE SHARP THEETHERS WILL POUNCE ON HIM SOON.....IN EQUAL MEASURE!