{"id":284956,"date":"2017-01-15T11:34:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T11:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=284956"},"modified":"2017-01-15T11:34:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T11:34:18","slug":"mahama-is-ndcs-best-candidate-for-election-2020-kofi-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/mahama-is-ndcs-best-candidate-for-election-2020-kofi-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama is NDC\u2019s best candidate for election 2020 \u2013 Kofi Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams has said former President John Dramani Mahama is the best candidate for his party in the next election in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve said that President Mahama in today\u2019s NDC is the best material that we have,\u201d he added in response to questions posed him on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong> about who the party&#8217;s next candidate would be for the next election.<\/p>\n<p>John Mahama\u2019s second term bid was truncated by the New Patriotic Party\u2019s Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in the December 7, 2016 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;cYJCPrZ9iu1REbtkRoprUBKL9lemdJf1&#8243;]Although he is yet to officially announce his bid to lead the NDC in the next election in 2020, Kofi Adams said \u201cI will be really happy if he puts himself up for re-election but that decision will totally depend on him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the <strong>Point Blank<\/strong> segment on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong> last Friday, the NDC National Organizer said Mahama\u2019s loss in the election does not make him a bad candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing you need to realize also is that the fact that you have lost an election does not mean that your candidate was bad. We have had great candidates lose election\u2026I have read in some papers quoting family sources that he is not going to stand again but I have not heard any denial from him but he has indicated to us\u2026that his primary focus now is how we will rebuild our party,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NDC forms committee to diagnose it\u2019s election defeat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The leadership of the NDC last month, Demceber 2016 formed a <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/29\/kwesi-botchwey-chairs-committee-to-diagnose-ndcs-defeat\/\"><strong>13-member committee<\/strong><\/a><\/span> to investigate the cause of the party\u2019s historic defeat in the December 7 polls.<\/p>\n<p>The committee, which was formed by the NDC\u2019s Functional Executive Committee (NEC), and approved by its Council of Elders, is being chaired by a Former Minister of Finance and Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission, Kwesi Botchwey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Godwin A. 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