Outbursts of NDC bigwigs ‘smack of immaturity’ – Adams
23rd March 2017
The decision of some leading lights of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to openly criticise the actions of the party and some persons within its ranks following the NDC’s loss in last year’s elections reflects their inexperience and immaturity, Kofi Adams, National Organiser of the NDC, has said.
According to him, a committee has been put in place by the party to carry out a post mortem as to why the NDC lost the elections, hence, all concerns must be directed at the Professor Kwesi Botchwey-led committee.
His comments follow recent remarks made by some leading members of the party that the conduct of some members of the John Mahama government resulted in the party’s defeat.
The immediate past chairman of the opposition NDC, Dr Kwabena Adjei, is reported to have said on Starr FM: “I wasn’t surprised [the NDC lost]…because when they (delegates) voted me out in Kumasi they voted the party out. It was a done deal [that the NPP will win]. I am not superstitious, but I came to the party with my own style…and I had a way of relating to the people.
“Nobody involved me in the campaign, I involved myself… No, I wasn’t invited… I tried to get access to the president and I didn’t get access. When I noticed things were going wrong, I tried and tried and tried but I didn’t get access, so I mobilised myself…and did what I could do.”
Similarly, a former National Organiser of the NDC, Yaw Boateng Gyan, has said most of the executives disrespected the electorate.
“The other issue has to do with the way and manner our people were talking to the electorate…very arrogant and disrespectful. How would we have appealed to the voters?” he wondered in an interview on Abusua FM.
“Some of us couldn’t talk because they said we had been voted out of the executive position of the party and so we shouldn’t talk… A lot of things went wrong.”
However, reacting to these comments in an interview on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme on Thursday March 23, Mr Adams said: “A committee has been set up to listen to the concerns of all party members. The committee members are made up of eminent men who were not part of the executives and so we should allow the committee to work and put out their final report for all of us to work with.
“The accusation and counter accusation now will not help because if at the end of the day these accusations are not captured in the final report, then it means you have defamed somebody. I believe strongly that the way some of the leading members of the party are speaking is not the best, it doesn’t give indications of any experience, it doesn’t give indications of any maturity. I believe that they need to behave a little bit more maturely.”
Source: ClassFMonline.com