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Mahama lived a life of a movie star - Kwesi Botchwey report

According to the report, there was disconnection between the government and party, as well as disconnection between the party and the grassroots.

According to reports by the Daily Guide newspaper, "President Mahama lived a life of a movie star."

The report said "President Mahama ignored the Akuse strategy. It included no flamboyant campaign, no amorphous group, etc.

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"The president’s inner circles were so intolerant that when you criticize the president, you are condemned."

The report, however, described the NDC’s collation of the election results as ‘complete mess,’ saying, "The situation brought dysfunctionalism in the party to a head!"

It said the NDC was "intolerant of the media and disrespected its own media."

"Party spokespersons go and mess up with other stations and come to do the damage control on Accra-based Radio Gold."

According to the report, there was "disconnection between the government and party, as well as disconnection between the party and the grassroots."

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The NDC committee was chaired by former finance minister Professor Kwesi Botchwey.

Prof Botchwey said the 455-page document contains details of what led to their defeat.

However, the committee made eight (8) recommendations to guide the party for future elections.

Here are the eight recommendations contained in the Kwesi Botchwey report

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1. That the party puts together a group of credible and eminent members of our party to undertake a peace building and healing of the country.

2. That the party takes steps to restore the integrity of the biometric register and the expanded electoral college.

3. We recommend that steps be taken to restore the capacity and effectiveness of the party's organs especially at the branch level where we believe these organs are the most critical because they are the party's immediate connection to the people, we are afterall a truly mass party.

4. We also have recommendations on ways we can and must improve the collation of election results.

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5. We also believe that steps ought to be taken by the party to reconnect itself properly to our social democratic roots and the principal actors in these social democratic roots.

6. We recommend that steps ought to be taken to strengthen research and intelligence in the party. This should involve crowding in a larger body of the party's intellectual base which has not been particularly active in the past, this will help to support the party's research capacity.

7. There are recommendations that the party will scale-up and re-invigorate its work in the area of youth organisation.

8. The organisation of women, we note that significant changes have taken place in the country's demographic profile and that the party ought to take notice of this and all the implications of these changes.

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