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Former National Organizer for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Yaw Boateng Gyan says comments such as “I love President Mills...I worked for President Mahama; leadership rotates” and “we must bring Mahama back at all cost” by some party executives ahead of Prof. Botchwey’s committee findings gingered others to also chip in their bit on NDC’s defeat.

It can be recalled that the NDC’s Deputy General Secretary, Koku Anyidoho after his party set up Prof. Kwesi Botchwey’s Committee to find out the cause of the NDC’s defeat in the 2016 elections sat on GhOne TV with Nana Aba Anamoah to talk of his relationship with former President Mahama whiles the Committee has still not concluded its work.

When the host of ‘State of Affairs’ on GhOne TV, Nana Aba Anamoah asked the NDC Deputy Chief Scribe Koku Anyidoho “do you regret serving the party under President Mahama?”, he answered saying “the party? Oh! I love the party”.

Nana Aba Anamoah again enquired three times continuously “do you love President Mahama?” but Koku responded severally that “I worked for him”, stressing that “leadership rotates; leadership will rotate”.

When Koku Anyidoho was asked for the fourth time whether he loves President Mahama he said “I loved President Mills...I will never regret working for him; roll back the clock 1 million years, President Mills I salute you in your grave. Nobody will take that thing away from me.”

Commenting on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, Yaw Boateng Gyan, who stopped short of any name-calling “if some of our national executives have kept quiet and allow Prof. Kwesi Botchwey’s Committee to finish their work, all these public outbursts from party members would not have come out.”

He added that the bickering and the blame game in the party started when a national executive was seen on TV describing the kind of relationship existing between him and former President John Mahama.

“The next day, Kofi Adams too is saying we must bring back President Mahama at all cost; this behaviour made others to say that the former President is incompetent. So why can’t we wait for the Committee to submit its report then we can know the cause of our defeat and find an antidote to deal with the problem?” he quizzed.

He however described as sad the kind of defeat the NDC and President Mahama suffered despite the fact that President Mahama has worked hard and achieved a lot as a young leader.

“...that is why the national executives thought it wise to set up this Committee to investigate the cause of defeat in the 2016 elections. The Committee has not come up with the report but some people are saying John is incompetent and others are saying without him NDC will lose the 2020 elections; these comments can further deepen the cracks in the party,” he opined.

He further lamented that there is no spirit of volunteerism in the NDC among the youth as they never carried out any assignment without demanding for money before they do it.

“If we are not able to encourage the youth to adopt the spirit of volunteerism in the party, the party will remain as it is and so all of us must be quiet and allow the Committee to work and come up with the solution, then we can find it easy to unite again,” he added.