"I do not hate Mahama" – Bagbin concedes defeat to Mahama

"I do not hate Mahama, I only blamed him for an improvement" – Bagbin

Alban S.K. Bagbin, an aspiring NDC flag bearer, says he does not harbor the hatred of leader John Dramani Mahama, although he has criticized it during the campaign..

m Bagbin, who conceded his defeat to Mahama on Saturday night, said his criticisms of the former president, described as attacks, aimed to improve the NDC as a party.

"We are politicians and you have to be in this game for a while to know that anything is possible, especially in Africa because there is so much uncertainty," Bagbin said in an interview. at Citi FM.

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"And so, trying to show who is the best candidate, you will certainly disagree with the other candidate … Whenever you disagree, people say that you are a critic and sometimes even they say it's an attack on the person, but it's democracy, it's competition.

"But at the end of the day, he knows me very well and he has worked with me for a long time, he knows that I have neither bad will nor hatred, so he knew that what I only had to criticize was 'he was very receptive, we had a good discussion and we know that with this culture we could do more for the party and this country'.

He also expressed gratitude to his constituents for voting overwhelmingly for him in his constituency of Nadowli-Kaleo, in the Upper West region.

The second vice-president beat Mr. Mahama by a total of 16 votes in his backyard where he has been a member since 1992.