Mahama's political leaders provoked our defeat – Bagbin

million. Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, second vice-speaker of Parliament, attributes in part the electoral defeat of the National Democratic Congress in 2016 to President Mahama, who allegedly surrounded himself with political politicians.

He said: A sheep was proud of the defeated NDC lions because the president was surrounded by disrespectful politicians who insulted everyone and cut him off from the party leadership. "

In an exclusive interview to the Ghana News Agency after making allegations about Accra-based radio station Nadowli / Kaleo Legislator compared former president John Dramani Mahama to a sheep who had led a pride of lions to a crushing defeat in the 2016 general election.

"I'm sure you know -" when a sheep They lead the lions to battle, they will be defeated, but when a lion She leads the sheep to fight, they win, "Bagbin said in an exclusive interview with the Ghana News Agency." 19659002] "Former President Mahama had ruled the country without the party. The evidence is clear, even our respected founder who is venerated even by our opponents has finally been separated from his own baby. Ask yourself, what could ever make a mother give up her own child? He said the NDC had failed miserably under Mahama because the government that had abandoned the party had also abandoned the pillars of politics.

The pillars of politics, he said included; the media, the technocrats and the party itself as the mother ship who have been miserably abandoned to their fate.

"As a party, we have been so unfair to our own media that my heart bleeds that we have been in power for eight years and that under our rule our own newspapers, such as The Enquirer and The Palaver, have collapsed. 19659002] "Today, where is the Republic, where is the voice of the Ghanaians? Even Montie is struggling to get back on the air. We were in power for eight years and we did not do anything to build our own spokesperson. But in modern politics, the media is everything because every political party has good plans and works hard to achieve them; but during this time, people have to see real efforts even if the results are difficult to obtain. Without the media, how do you get people to appreciate your efforts? "

Mr. Bagbin stated that one of the NDC's problems was that it allowed the nuclear power plant to capture and control the media landscape and that it was even more their alleged performance.

"It's not that we do not have technocrats in the NDC, we've done it, but the NPP attracts more. And even those we have, we reject them because we think politics is a matter of charity. "

Mr. Bagbin stated that the party should change the mentality of their followers as the solution to the innumerable mistakes that made the party unpopular in the 2016 polls.

" We must first be clear in our minds that politics is not only about sacrifice; People who sacrifice themselves must benefit when opportunities arise. Therefore, we must build our media, also empowering them to become empires as our opponents have done with theirs. We need to put in place measures to make technocrats feel welcome in our party and we have to make our own party sustainable in these turbulent seas called politics. "

" We must not forget our base either; you are an ungrateful one to ride on their support and sacrifices in the office and then when you get there you abandon them and say that you are father for everything, "he added.

He said that efforts were under way to put the party back and this could only be achieved when the parties respected the recommendations of Professor Kwesi Botchwey.

Source: GNA