NDC resolves not to respond to Rawlings

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January 3, 2017 8:32 AM

Mr Rawlings at the 35th anniversary of the December 31 uprising said the NDC caused its own defeat.

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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said that it will be not be prudent to respond to its founder, Jerry John Rawlings’ comments regarding the party’s defeat in the December 7 general elections.

“The NDC’s painful and massive rejection at the polls is indicative that we have lost the moral high ground that sets us apart from others. Great lengths were taken to draw the attention of the party as a collective but none of it will be tolerated or accommodated.”

“We lost the elections way before the 7th of December. We persistently and unrepentantly stayed on the slippery slope to the humiliating defeat despite the several warning lights right in our faces. My honest wish was for corrective measures to be taken to avert this electoral disaster,” he said.

But in an interview on Accra-based Citi FM, the NDC’s 2016 Campaign Coordinator and Organizing Secretary, Kofi Adams, said responding to the founder’s comments now is not the way to go since the party has already formed a committee to investigate the defeat.

“It will be unfair to be responding to comments that people make including very high profile persons like the founder and former President of the Republic.”

“To the extent that we have put a committee in place, I would like that the media would give some space for the committee to finish its work then we can discuss the report of the committee. For us who are in leadership, it will be unfair to be picking and choosing whose comments to respond to and who’s not to respond to,” Mr Adams said.

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