[ 2016-12-14 ]

Complacency caused NDC’s defeat – ET Mensah
A leading member of the National Democratic
Congress (NDC) who is also the outgoing Member of
Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Mr. E. T. Mensah
has attributed the party’ defeat to
complacency.

He is also bitter that counsel of experienced
people like himself was not taken serious by the
party. Speaking on Yen Nsempa, a morning show on
Onua FM hosted by Bright Akwasi Asempa, the
veteran politician revealed that despite his worth
of experience in Parliament, an action was
orchestrated by persons in powerful position in
government to unseat him.

He indicated that the defeat may shock many party
members, because everybody had thought the 2016
election was going to be won on a silver platter.
He recalled how he and others were vilified and
insulted when they tried to steer the party off
the collision course.

ET Mensah indicated that the Flagstaff House
interfered with the party’s parliamentary
process which eventually caused them to lose a
number of seats in parliament to their political
opponent.

The outgoing MP insisted that a conscious effort
was made by persons at the presidency to ensure
that experienced NDC MPs did not succeed. There is
no way you can succeed when your frontline is
divided, he observed, but was confident the NDC
will not collapse in opposition.

He said the party would put the pieces together
and bounce back more formidable for 2020. E.T.
Mensah emphasized that any political party that
entertains complacency will fall, which he said
was not peculiar to the NDC.

The former Minister of Youth and Sports reiterated
that if some of them who were sidelined had been
included and seriously involved in the campaign
process, NDC wouldn’t have lost massively to the
NPP.

But Dr. Isaac Owusu Mensah a political science
lecturer at the University of Ghana felt the NDC
lost the elections because they over-concentrated
on infrastructural development. Dr. Owusu Mensah
had conducted a poll that put Nana Akufo-Addo
ahead of John Mahama in the run up to the 2016
elections.

Source - 3news.com

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