Politics
Alabi’s Failure Has Put NDC In Serious Crisis – Atubiga
Prof Joshua Alabi woefully failed as campaign manager for John Dramani Mahama in the 2020 polls, a former flag bearer aspirant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Stephen Atubiga, has said.
According to him, the lapses at the Electoral Commission’s strong room during polls could have been prevented if he was more effective at his work.
“Mac Manu was there [Strong Room]. Prof Alabi was supposed to be at the EC’s office to make sure that our results, John Dramani Mahama’s results were accounted for; the party’s results were also accounted for. That didn’t happen. He also did not coordinate well to make sure that a national executive person was at the EC headquarters”, Mr Atubiga said.
Mr Atubiga believes Mr Mahama “won this election but our negligence started from our campaign manager’s office and then the irresponsible representatives that we had in the EC’s office”.
“We’re in crisis. Our party is in serious crisis. There is loyalty crisis. There is integrity crisis internally. What I mean by integrity crisis is: there is a lot of circumstances that led to our loss. We are in crisis right now – our MPs, who we look up to as our government, right now there is crisis in the inner circle extended to the youth; they are agitating but I want to say that we should calm down, it’s not all lost, we’ll resolve our problems but at this moment, the NDC is in crisis”.
“It is the most serious crisis, turbulence that we are going through from how we betrayed the candidate. There was a big alleged betrayal that has led to our loss. This loss is one of the most unacceptable, unfortunate and painful loss that we were not supposed to have incurred”.
