{"id":312193,"date":"2017-04-19T14:49:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T14:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=312193"},"modified":"2017-04-19T14:49:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T14:49:45","slug":"blame-mahama-and-wife-for-ndcs-loss-ketu-south-foot-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/blame-mahama-and-wife-for-ndcs-loss-ketu-south-foot-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Blame Mahama and wife for NDC’s loss – Ketu South foot soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"
As the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), struggles to recover from its defeat in the 2016 elections, grassroots members\u00a0of the party in the Ketu South Constituency in the Volta Region, have waded into the blame game by accusing Former President John Dramani Mahama and his wife, as being the major cause of their defeat.<\/span><\/p>\n At a press conference in Aflao today [Wednesday<\/span><\/span>], the group described the party’s\u00a0defeat as humiliating, and blamed it on the party\u2019s neglect of the foot soldiers.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The pro-opposition group; Action Movement of NDC, claim that some actions and utterances by the then Candidate and former President John Dramani Mahama and the wife, Lordina Mahama, created so much disaffection for the party at the grassroots.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe Action Movement is saying exactly what sent us to a humiliating opposition. Our executives did not spread the campaign funds in the 2016 election, instead kept them for themselves. Bad utterances from JM to nurses and party elders. The women front was broken by Lordina; JM\u2019s wife\u201d the group stated.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The group justified their resolve to go public with the issues, claiming it was as a result of unyielding responses from their leaders internally.<\/span><\/p>\n The Ketu South Constituency is the Electoral Commission\u2019s largest constituency, and has featured as the stronghold of the opposition NDC. <\/span><\/p>\n Many political observers believe that, the recent loss of the party in the general elections was also largely due to apathy in the party\u2019s strongholds. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Addressing the media, the leader of the group, Godwin Henyo, said the way out is for the party leadership to expedite measures towards re-organization of an early congress to elect a new flagbearer.<\/span><\/p>\n