A Vociferous member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) communications team, Mr Agbesi Nutsu, has waded into the raging bickering within the NDC following the 2016 embarrassing electoral defeat.
According to him, the 2016 election campaign of the NDC was funfair with no direction.
He said the campaign team lacked direction and focus as they were following the then President John Dramani Mahama instead of forming groups and campaigning in different areas.
Mr Nutsu said the national executive failed to connect with various regional, branch and local executives to move and have effective campaign across the country. This, he said, contributed to apathy at the grass-roots level.
Speaking on KASAPA FM‘s morning show, ‘Anopa Kasa’, hosted by Fiifi Banson yesterday, Mr Nutsu revealed that the national campaign executive failed to select the right people in terms of language and culture.
He said in the Volta Region, for instance, it was difficult for the people, especially the old or those who could not speak the Twi language, to understand the message they were campaigning on.
He said when Mr Peter Amewu and his counterparts of the then opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) were using Voltarians to campaign seriously in the local dialect; the NDC was busily sending people who spoke Twi to the region.
The communications team member also described the national organiser of the party, Mr Kofi Adams, as a “disaster” who contributed hugely to the NDC’s shameful defeat in the 2016 elections.
He said Mr Adams did a terrible job as the campaign coordinator which set the party on track for defeat in the polls that the NDC was confident of winning.
“Kofi Adams failed completely, he was a disaster. This defeat should be blamed on Mr Adams. In 2008, Ofosu Ampofo was the national organiser, was he the campaign coordinator? In 2012, Yaw Boateng Gyan was he the campaign coordinator? So why didn’t we continue the precedent, why on earth was Mr Adams, the incumbent national organizer, made the campaign coordinator of the 2016 elections?” he quipped.
“The man himself is a disaster and you top it up with the position of a campaign coordinator, what good do you expect from him?
“Lots of things happened in our campaign which were wrong, we had a whole national director of election moving with the vice president’s campaign team, why was it so? The deputy director of election was a parliamentary hopeful in the North, so who was controlling the election directorate of the NDC?” Mr Nutsu asked.
Mr Nutsu said people around the former President knew that they were losing, yet they sang praises to him, telling him he was winning.
Though the Prof. Kwesi Botchway Committee had been tasked to investigate what led to the party’s defeat, members of the NDC had in the past few days traded accusations against each other in the media.
Source: Daily Heritage
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hahahahaha I laugh enter the kitchen, open the fridge and took one chilled beer to relax myself. this party is dead and buried. ndc is a party for the old ple and the old are now listening to us their children more. for the first time I was able to convince my old folks to vote for npp and i am sure many ple also had a tough time convincing their old folks too. ndc is now history. ndc shd never be an alternative to npp. never.
NDC is no longer attractive to younger voters, and therefore, the support base is eroding and the effect is the last election.The issue of apathy of voters is a wrong diagnosis. NPP is rather, attracting new voters and is on course to grow its voter base.
They thought they could influence the tallying of the numbers at the EC but the NPP out-witted them. They have 'wised-up' now after several 'robberies'.
My God,hear them.They are coming out with their own theories as to why they lost, forgetting that the told the whole world that per their results, they were were in a comfortable lead, who were you deceiving?. According to Kofi Kotokoli Adams, the N D C computers failed them,so the question arises,were the results in the N D C computers different from the actual true results?Simply put, the N D C rigging machine failed this time around,The N P P simply said,"Once bitten,twice shy".S -T -E- A -L- E- R -S
Kofi Adam IS A FRIEND TO GABI OKYERE DARKO AND THEY TALKING BEHIND THE SEEN WHICH HE WAS CAUGHT IN THAT TAPE WHAT WERE YOU ASPECT FROM HIM