Former Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress [NDC], Koku Anyidoho says a post election report by the Prof. Kwesi Botchwey Committee to seek reasons for the NDC’s defeat in the 2016 election mentioned the involvement of celebrities as part of their defeat.
“In fact that defeat was painful. So many things went wrong and the Kwesi Botchwey report has stated it clearly. Celebrities played part in our defeat,” he said in an interview with Neat FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’.
According to Koku Anyidoho, the NDC lost the 2016 General Election because about 1 million supporters of the party did not vote as they were not in support of how the campaign was being run.
He explained that, the grass-root level of the party were ignored - “we chose celebrities to lead our campaign. This won’t happen again.”
“We neglected our structures. We can’t have a party and allow ‘strangers’ to run a campaign for us,” he added.
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Koku is 100% right, how many votes did John Dumelo bring to NDC basket? Kudo Koku, God bless you. Mahama only dashed out monies and V8s to celebrities for nothing.
So the NPP did not tell lies to win power after all? What a confused group of people in the NDC. You cannot even sit down on your buttocks to analyse things for yourself, yet you want to take the whole country on your shoulders to rule over us. How can you identify problems, analyse and then find sustainable solutions to make us happy? Please, sit your somewhere, NDC, and stop wasting our eyes and ears.
You may be right but the way you present your point is seriously problematic. You could have kept quiet over this while the party reforms things.
Koku, those you call strangers would not vote for you again. Why are you people afraid of your so called founder whose insults and attacks on the NDC were the campaign messages of the NPP. Your so-called founder called NDC ***barred word*** and corrupt. Your so called founder single handedly sent you to opposition and he is still at it. Why are you all afraid of your so-called founder. ***barred word***
where did you get the 1 million supporters from? were they from the Volta Region? you see why we need a new voter register? there is no 1 million voters anywhere. you plan to rig the elections failed. that is all. with the issue of celebrities, i agreed with KOKU that it contributed to the hatred some Ghanaians had for you and therefore voted against you.
This is the hard truth. Mahama invited a celebrity from Nigeria and paid him 50,000 USD just to come to Ghana and praised Him and his Dubai bridge. Koku, I think you are a very faithful NDC member, Thank you so much