{"id":396409,"date":"2017-06-20T12:37:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T12:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/?p=396409"},"modified":"2017-06-20T12:37:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T12:37:41","slug":"rawlings-deliberate-sabotage-led-to-ndcs-grave-lost-ponkoh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/20\/rawlings-deliberate-sabotage-led-to-ndcs-grave-lost-ponkoh\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawlings deliberate sabotage led to NDC\u2019s grave lost \u2013 Ponkoh"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The founder and leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jerry John Rawlings deliberately took actions that he knew would lead to the defeat of the party in the 2016 elections, an active member of the party has disclosed.<\/p>\n

Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh speaking on Adom FM\u2019s Morning Show, \u2018Dwaso Nsem\u2019 Tuesday said the founder should be the first person to be blamed if the party is seeking to find scape goats for their defeat.<\/p>\n

The NDC suffered a humiliating defeat in the 2016 elections polling only 44.4% of valid votes cast as against the NPP\u2019s 53.8% in the presidential elections.<\/p>\n

Former President John Mahama who was the party\u2019s candidate for the polls was seeking his second term in office but was denied through the painful defeat.<\/p>\n

The party subsequently set up a 13-member committee to probe its defeat in the 2016 election. The committee presented its findings to the National Executive Council (NEC) yesterday at the party\u2019s headquarters.<\/p>\n

As part of its recommendations, the committee has asked the party to take a holistic look at the party\u2019s biometric electoral register.<\/p>\n

The 55-paged report, titled, \u2018listening to the grassroot\u2019, said the NDC must take urgent steps to restore the integrity of the register.<\/p>\n

The failure of the report to name and shame persons whose action and inactions contributed significantly to the defeat of the party, Yamoah Ponkoh said was not the best.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople were given a whole lot of responsibilities so they had to have been told to account for the specific assignments of helping Mahama\u2026the fact is that the people given specific assignments failed to perform and the report should have indicted those who were given specific assignments but failed to perform\u2026,\u201d he said further.<\/p>\n

One of such persons, he said is former President Jerry John Rawlings who despite been the founder of the party refused to openly back the party but deliberately chose to do acts and say things that portrayed the main opposition party candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo as a better candidate for the polls.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t understand why the report was silent on Rawlings, he did not help the cause of the NDC in 2016 elections\u2026the fact that your wife and children fail to give you utmost respect in the house does not warrant you as a father going to support an enemy against your family\u2026and that is what Rawlings did,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n

The NDC, he said could have done better but for the \u2018deliberate sabotage of the highest order\u2019 by their founder.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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