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Deputy Minister of Information and Media Relations, Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed
has blamed the defeated Parliamentary candidate for the Kumbungu constituency
and the entire leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the
party’s woes in the recently held by-elections.
He
attributed the party’s loss to the acrimony in the hearts of its members at the
Kumbungu constituency.
According
to him, the party should have addressed the concerns of the residents before
contesting the seat.
Speaking
on Radio Gold’s “Alhaji Alhaji” on Saturday, Hon. Murtala Mohammed explained
that due to the past experiences of the party in the Kumbungu constituency,
some residents who are members of the party were incensed; a reason why the NDC
Parliamentary candidate Alhaji Imoro Yakubu Kpagu lost the seat to Hon. Amadu
Yahya of the Convention People’s Party (CPP).
He
therefore advised the leadership of the party to resolve the challenges in
order to reclaim the Kumbungu seat.
Expanding
further, he was of a strong view that the opposition New Patriotic Party’s
inclusion in or abstinence from the contest would have had no effect on the
results in the by-elections because to him, the NDC’s loss was a clear
indication that “the NDC people out of anger and out of our inability as a
party to resolve the differences that happened, maybe probably we turned a
blind eye to those differences”, did not vote massively for their Parliamentary
candidate and so, if the NPP had contested the seat, the party would have lost
miserably.
And
“even if NPP had Nana Addo or Dr. Bawumia as the candidate against a four year
or let me just say unknown person contesting on the ticket of the NDC, that
person would have won, or even if CPP had a candidate and NDC didn’t have a
candidate, and NPP had a candidate; that NPP candidate would have lost because
certainly the people wouldn’t have voted for the NPP,” he stressed.
Source:
Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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