As the Dr. Kwesi Botchwey-led committee aimed at diagnosing the party’s loss in the December 2016 elections continues its work, there have been allegations of the misappropriation of campaign funds with some saying Mr. Mahama hijacked campaign funds and marginalized the party.

[contextly_sidebar id=”lVjgn21DgTV2ZPMmeNAudM0hq5zVpSN3″]But the Sagnarigu MP, speaking on the Eyewitness News’ Point Blank segment, rubbished such claims.

“I don’t think that anybody would say that the President marginalized anybody from the campaign. How would anybody say he marginalized the party when the General Secretary was the leader of the campaign team. Kofi Adams was the Campaign Coordinator and important segments of the party were involved in the campaign.”

“How are you running a campaign and not having access to resources? How can you be living by the river and wash your hands with spittle?” Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini quizzed.

He further suggested that, some of these unfair allegations were borne out of frustration at the party’s loss in the election.

“To lay it at the doorsteps of President [Mahama] and say that he deliberately marginalized anybody and kept resources from people is not a fair thing to say now. It is just because we lost power and people can come out with all these rationalizations.”

Mr. John Mahama is convinced the NDC will “bounce back in 2020, and has said members of the party must help to strengthen the party’s base to ensure that it returns to power, a point Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini agrees with.

“If the NDC is able to put its act together and were able to reorganize, I can tell you the machinery that we will have in 2020 will be a formidable one that will catapult us back into power,” the MP said.

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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According to the party, the calls are misplaced, especially at a time when the party is taking stock of what led to its defeat in the December 7 poll.

At a press conference yesterday, a pro NDC-group, the Crusade for Probity and Accountability, demanded that the current leadership step aside for overseeing the worst election defeat of a sitting government.

But in a Citi News interview, the deputy NDC Volta Regional Secretary, Mustapha Gbande, rubbished the calls, retorting that the group had no standing make such demands because it is not a recognised organ of the party.

“It is premature and unwarranted for a group of people to go out there and call on executives to step down without necessarily creating or having any concrete report of why we have lost an election knowing very well that a lot of factors contributed to our defeat. In any case, you cannot trace our defeat to the cause of any single executive.

“The body they formed is not a recognised body under the NDC and so they lack the legal capacity to call on the past executives to step down,” he said.

Mr. Gbande, instead urged cool heads to prevail so the party could strategise “whilst allowing the elected government the space to install themselves.”

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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