Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), George Lawson, has denied claims that the party ignored critical findings by a research group in the party prior to the 2016 election.

Mr Lawson said he was "not aware" of any said data by any group,  adding "if such a survey existed then the team that worked on it did not channel it to the appropriate party quarters for action".

“I am not aware of what he is talking about...the President [John Mahama] is an individual,” he said to suggest that perhaps the said report was presented to the former President alone, but not the party leadership," he told joy TV .

“We as party a party, the structures must be followed; so if you give it to us we will send it we will send it to our channels of communication,” he added.

Mr Lawsons was speaking in a reaction to a claim by leading member of the party Rojo Mettle-Nunoo that a critical pre-2016 election survey was ignored.

Rojo Mettle-Nunoo, who managed the electoral campaign for the late President John Atta Mills, said he was part of a research team that found that the then incumbent party’s 2016 campaign messages were out of touch with electorates, but their recommendations were swept under the carpet.


“I believe strongly that our message – our research data – was not accepted, it did not impact the strategy of the election and it was a disaster waiting the happen,” he had said on Monday.

The NDC has been nursing deep wounds after a major defeat in last year’s election, losing by over one million votes to the New Patriotic Party’s Nana Akufo-Addo – the biggest loss for the NDC.

A 13-member committee headed by former Finance Minister Prof. Kwesi Botchwey, tasked with finding out the cause of NDC’s poor showing in the last election, has presented its report,  but the contents of the committee’s report have yet to be made public.

By Fiifi abdul Malik