Former Central Regional Minister, Kweku Ricketts-Hagan says he has taken full responsibility for the National Democratic Congress\u2019 (NDC) defeat in the region in 2016 elections.<\/p>\n
The New Patriotic Party\u2019s Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo polled 53.22% in the presidential race in the region while the NDC\u2019s John Mahama managed with 43.43%.<\/p>\n
The region which is considered as a swing one has saw the NPP winning 19 out of the 23 parliamentary seat there.<\/p>\n
Currently the NDC has tasked a committee to investigate the party\u2019s abysmal performance in the polls.<\/p>\n
But before the committee completes its work, Ricketts-Hagan while speaking on Citi FM<\/strong>\u2019s news analysis programme, The Big Issue<\/strong> on Saturday said: \u201cI was the Central Regional Minister, I take full responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”NkyRGDep8pgvJWB9ALG4EewPqQ9hggFa”]\u201cYou come into government to do the best that you can for your country, at the end of the day, the people decide and after the people decide we must all rally behind that. We go into opposition to learn from our mistakes. That is why we are doing all the reviews we are doing and to see what went wrong and to come back and become a better government in the future.”<\/p>\n “No one party will stay in party forever. So when you go to opposition, you are basically to take stock, and hopefully learn something from it. The same way the NPP did for eight years and now we are in opposition. It is possible that we could be back in four years,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Blame me for NDC\u2019s loss<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Ricketts-Hagan\u2019s comment comes on the back of remark by former President Mahama who said he takes full responsibility for the NDC\u2019s loss nationwide.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course as the general who led us into battle, I take ultimate responsibility for our losing the election and so if it will satisfy those people, blame me for the loss.\u201d He further charged members of the party to take advantage of the Prof. Botchway\u2019s committee to express their grievances instead of the media. \u201cI\u2019ve been meeting with FEC and the elders; the chairman of the party is now the leader according to our constitution but all of us are members of the party. We\u2019ve served at high level of government and so we have a role to play both as ex-president, ex vice president, as ministers of state and our fortunes are tied in with the party and we are committed members of the party so we must work to make sure that we put the party in a state where we are able to contribute to the progress of this country even in opposition by making sure that we provide the kind of opposition that safeguards the interest of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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