E/R NDC condemns Dr. Zubeiru's comments

The Eastern Regional secretariat of the National Democratic Congress has expressed its utmost displeasure about radio commentaries made by one Dr. Ibrahim Zubeiru blaming Dr. Edward Omane Boamah and Hon. Seth Terkper for the party's defeat at the 2016 polls.

A press statement issued on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 by the executive committee of the Eastern Regional wing of the party openly condemned the utterances of Dr. Zubeiru.

"We find this attitude not only backward and disappointing, but also disrespectful and an act of indiscipline. In the first place, we are surprised the said Dr. Zubeiru is being reported as a member of the Prof. Kwasi Botchwey-led Election Review Committee because we can say on authority as Regional executives that he never participated in the fact finding exercise in our region".

According to the committee, 'checks from colleague regional executives in other regions disclose that Dr. Nubeiru never 'got onto the field to partake in the research, especially in the Eastern region'.

"We are therefore at a loss as to why such a passive committee member would be jumping from one radio station to the another in an attempt to cast a slur on the image of colleague comrades, if not for a personal agenda", they stated.

"As a Regional executive Committee and members of the National Executive Committee NEC (five of us), we can boldly say that Dr. Zubeiru was only trying to smuggle his personal opinion into the committee's report since nowhere in the submitted report are those comments he made captured. We wonder why he is struggling hard to discredit the quality of the report submitted by the committee with those unfortunate comments", they added.

According to the executive committee, the appointees Dr. Nubeiru sought to denigrate have 'obviously been very helpful and instrumental in the growth of the party at the national level in general and the Eastern Region in particular, together with other prominent members'. They also issued a word of caution to Dr. Nubeiru in their press release.

"Dr. Zubeiru should be mindful of the clarion call from the rank and file of our great party for unity and reorganization so we can recapture power in 2020.
We urge him to take inspiration from leading members like His Excellency John Dramani Mahama and even his committee chairman- Prof. Kwasi Botchwey and desist from this needless media commentary he has commenced with regards to the submitted report", they advised.

"We went into the election as a team with a united front hoping for a resounding victory. We should therefore collectively accept responsibility for our loss much as we would have done if we had won.
It is therefore in nobody's interest to be pointing accusing fingers at others at a time when we are all gearing up to reorganize and recapture power; especially when those accusations are baseless and pure fabrications".

They pleaded with the party ranks to disregard Dr Zubeiru's comments, and called on National Executives to take action on this anti-party conduct by him.