[ 2017-05-10 ]

General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia

67 paged Kwesi Botchway report fake – Asiedu Nketia
The General Secretary of the opposition National
Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia
has urged the public to disregard claims of the
availability of a report by the Kwesi Botchwey
fact finding Committee.

According to him, the committee has completed its
work but it’s yet to put the findings together
into a report.

There have been media reports that the 13-member
committee’s report among other things has made
adverse findings which reflect badly on former
President John Mahama’s chances of running for
President again.

According to the Today Newspaper, Mr Mahama’s
failure to present himself as an incorruptible
person, is one of the major reasons he lost to
Nana Akufo-Addo.

The paper said, for instance, at one of the
committee’s meetings held outside Accra last
month to put finishing touches to the report, its
sources said the report nearly hit a snag as
former President Dramani Mahama’s loyalists
vehemently opposed the recommendation of having a
new presidential candidate for the party in
2020.”

According to the paper, excerpts of the report
also recommended that any future presidential
nominee of the NDC must work in tandem with the
party structures by bringing on board national and
regional executives, polling agents and those at
the grassroots to help in campaigning.

On why President Dramani Mahama should be
replaced, the paper said the report pointed out
that the 2016 flag bearer of the New Patriotic
Party’s (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who
is now the President, used his incorruptible
mantra to the disadvantage of “our (NDC’s)
candidate who was alleged to have endorsed
corruption in his government.”

“The NPP won because their leader was acclaimed
to be incorruptible while ours was tainted with
corruption and bribery, so going into the 2020
elections we (Kwesi Botchwey Committee) propose
that we elect somebody who can also claim to be
incorruptible,” the newspaper said the report
observed.

It also published that the report noted that:
“Our own media organisations were made to starve
while the then pro-opposition media were given
resources, with the view that they would leak
information to us, but nothing of that sort
happened.”

But General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia
insists the claims are baseless as the committee
has not even put together a draft report.

“They’re are claiming the report is 67-paged
but it has not been written yet, so where from
that figure. The Newspapers talk of ex-President
John Mahama’s chances leading the NDC again, but
the committee was not given that mandate to make
such conclusion. I think the bulk of the report
will be about recommendation on the way forward as
the committee was mandated to do and not about
pinpointing individuals and putting blame on them.
We NDC are futuristic and so we asked the
committee to identify what denied us of the
electoral victory and suggest ways the NDC can put
itself together and come back to power. Anyone who
expects something different from what I’ve said
will be disappointed.”

Source - kasapafmonline.com

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