Chairman of the 13-member committee tasked to investigate what led to the defeat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at the 2016 polls, Prof Kwesi Botchwey, has refuted earlier reports that the committee recommended that former President John Dramani Mahama be replaced as flag bearer for the 2020 elections since he lost the 2016 polls as a result of his association with corruption while his arch-rival, Nana Akufo-Addo, of the New Patriotic Party was seen as incorruptible by the electorate.
According to Prof Botchwey, who presented the 455-page report to the leadership of the party on Monday, June 19, the committee made no recommendation about who leads the party into the 202 elections.
“It was not part of our mandate as a committee to recommend who should or should not stand as the party’s candidate in 2020, so, we didn’t recommend any such thing; not for former President Mahama or anybody else. It simply was not part of our mandate,” he told Class FM.
The committee was tasked, among other things, to make recommendations for the restructuring and reorganisation of the party to position it for Election 2020.
Source: classfmonline.com
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No matter what is contained in the report as to why the corrupt, criminal people in the NDC lost the elections, one thing if is not included would be like behaving as the ostrich! That is, the NDC hatred, dislike, discrimination against Akans, especially, Ashantis! Just look at the results in the various areas very well. The NDC lost heavily in the Akan dominated areas. Such discriminations were in terms of contracts, projects, appointments, award of scholarships to foreign students who are from the north or volta.
Ndc are fo*ls and I see they are not for Ghana if they are a serious political party I don't understand why they would even by pass Dr Kwesi Botchway for any other person as a presidential candidate. Ndc always want somebody they can take for a ride to dupe the nation. Kwesi Botchway is one I the ndc who wouldn't tolerate that nons*nse . I remember he left his Finance ministerial position because of some unseen hands interfering in his work,then again he left a position John mahama gave him but couldn't perform on his own to help the country and here is a man who listen to all views from every political party in the country and could be a very good president for the country but in a wrong party. He is in a party which could kill him for working for Ghana either by voodoo or poison. I'm sorry for Ghana for such a patriotic son to be in an occult party where freedom is not on the table so such a great man can never represent that party as a presidential candidate because it is live or die if you don't go by their rules.