[ 2017-04-06 ]

Former Minister of Trade and Industry, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah

Broken NDC must be fixed – Spio-Garbrah
The former Minister of Trade and Industry, Ekwow
Spio-Garbrah, has stated that the National
Democratic Congress (NDC), is committed to
diagnosing and addressing challenges that
contributed to its massive defeat in the 2016
general elections.

Alluding to the process involved in fixing a
faulty vehicle, Dr. Spio-Garbrah, a former
flagbearer hopeful, said the NDC is equally a
“broken party” that is devising measures to
revive itself for the 2020 general elections.

“The situation in our party is really one of
building the party and letting it recover from a
very severe electoral loss. It is just like
driving a very good car and the car has an
accident and it needs to be fixed so the first
thing you want to do is take it to the mechanics
and let the electricians do their work, check the
transmission, take care of the brakes, the shock
absorbers, then when the car is in a good
condition almost any driver can drive it and
potentially bring it to the victory line.”

““… If the car has broken down and you put
the best driver in the car, the car cannot move
and the car will certainly not win a race so our
concentration now is to help the Kwesi Botchwey
committee and the party secretariat.”

Mr. Garbrah also asked Ghanaians to stop the
speculation about the party’s defeat and wait
for the committee’s report.

“There is a committee of very fine brains going
round to collate concerns and when they file their
report we will all see where they claim or think
the problems went.”

President John Mahama was defeated by the New
Patriotic Party’s Nana Akufo-Addo in the
December 7 elections, in what many have described
as the worst performance put up by a sitting
President in an election.

The NPP Flagbearer secured the presidency after a
third time, beating the incumbent, President John
Mahama with 53.85 percent of valid votes cast.

A 13-member NDC committee was subsequently set up
to diagnose the party’s loss and make useful
suggestions.

Source - theheraldghana.com

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