[ 2017-05-15 ]

Former President John Dramani Mahama

Mahama causing NDC ‘great harm’ – Group
Former President John Dramani Mahama should not
“dare” contest the 2020 flagbearership of the
National Democratic Congress (NDC) if he does not
come clear on exactly what he has taken
responsibility for, with regards to the party’s
defeat in the last presidential elections, a youth
group of the party, Action Movement, has said.

Mr Mahama, after the NDC’s 2016 electoral loss,
asked supporters of the party to blame him for its
defeat. “The cause of our loss is
multifaceted,” he told his former appointees at
a meeting on 28 March, adding that those going on
air to blame fellow party members and specific
members of his administration for the defeat must
redirect those accusations at him since he led the
party into the elections.

“Of course, as the General who led us into
battle, I take ultimate responsibility for our
losing the election, and so if it will satisfy
those people, blame me for the loss.”

But speaking at a press conference in Accra on
Monday, 15 May, the spokesperson for the group,
Kodzo Hamenya Keglo, accused Mr Mahama of hurting
the party.

He said: “JM’s ‘dead goat syndrome’ during
2012 to 2016 is still there and it’s obvious
that JM loves his cronies than the grassroots and
is still behaving like a dead goat. If JM is still
defending his appointees who hurt our grassroots
badly, then JM has no pity for the grassroots.

“JM should do what is honourable. He is causing
our party great harm by just saying that he has
taken responsibility for our loss. JM should stop
the silent torture on our electorate and say
exactly what he has taken responsibility for.

“Who has failed him? Who did not do his/her work
well? Where should money go and did not go? Which
of his appointees failed him? Why were the women
organisers not resourced? Why did JM not call
Valerie Sawyer to order when he heard that she was
campaigning against the NDC candidate in Klottey
Korle? Whose idea was it to rather resource
friends and ladies for Mahama to the detriment of
our executives? These are the question we are
asking.

“If JM does not come out immediately for what he
has taken responsibility for, then it won’t be
morally right for him to organise himself as a
candidate for the party. JM must not dare 2020 if
he doesn’t clear the air for what he has taken
responsibility for.”

Source - classfmonline.com

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