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Botchwey's report likely to end up in a dustbin - Chairman Wontumi
The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party believes that the NDC will not attach any seriousness to the report.
NPP Ashanti regional Chairman Wontumi
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“You don't expect executives who are constantly at loggerheads like Kofi Portuphy, Aseidu Nketia and Kofi Adams to read the report. The report is likely to end up in a dustbin since most of the executives are not interested in it", Mr Boasiako, who is also known as Chairman Wontumi told Peacefmonline.com.
He argued that “Prof. Kwesi Botchwey and his team have embarked on a fruitless exercise. No one in the NDC would listen to them because the same set of leaders that caused their defeat are still at post. The committe has played a vital role but the saga would end up being a circus".
Chairman Wontumi further stressed that the former president, John Mahama should be blamed for the party’s defeat.
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"Ghana under Mahama was a failed state. He and his cronies who were in charge made corruption look legit, forgetting that Ghanaians were waiting to punish him severely in the elections.
“If you should ask my opinion on why they lost the elections, I will say the leaders of the NDC didn't treat their founder with respect. They pushed him out from the party and made his wife feel terrible as well.
"Ghanaians also wanted them out to know the circumstances under which our late former president Prof. Mills died. It was a mystery to be solved and lastly, Ghana under the Mahama-led government killed our economy. A lot of business folded up and unemployment rate kept soaring high", he said.
The NDC on Monday received the 455-page report from the Kwesi Botchwey-led committee which was tasked to investigate the party’s defeat in the 2016 election.
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The committee’s responsibility was to among other things make recommendations for the restructuring and reorganisation of the party to position it for the next general election in 2020.
The report has since recommended a "peacemaking and healing tour".
Prof. Kwesi Botchwey who presented the 455-page report said the NDC must assemble "credible" personalities in the party to lead the tour.
“We also have a recommendation that the party takes steps to restore the integrity of the biometric register and the expanded Electoral College. Additionally, we recommend that steps be taken to restore the capacity and effectiveness of the party’s organs, especially to the branch level. We believe these organs are most critical because they are the party’s immediate connections with the people. We are, after all, a truly mass party.
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“We also have recommendations on ways in which we can and must improve the collation of election results,” he said.
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