NDC ready for 2020 – Alban Bagbin

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is ready to return to the Flagstaff House in 2020, the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin has said.

His comments come days after the 13-member Committee tasked by the NDC to conduct a comprehensive review of its “planning, execution and outcomes” of campaign and participation in the election submitted its report.

The committee whose work is to help establish what went wrong in the 2016 election in order to guide its activities moving forward on Monday, June 19, 2017, submitted to the hierarchy of the NDC a 455-page report capturing a series of diagnosis from its members nationwide on why it lost that year’s polls.

Some details of the recommendations leaked to the media mentioned of the deep disconnect between the party and its grassroots, thus urging reconnection.

It also recommended that a healing tour is embarked on by credible and eminent persons within the party.

Speaking Wednesday on Starr Chat, Mr Bagbin who is also the Member of Parliament of Nadowli-Kaleo in the Upper West region and a member of the Prof. Botchwey-led committee said the report will help streamline the NDC for the victory in 2020 after its abysmal performance in 2016.

“I think that the NDC is getting itself ready for the 2020 elections,” he stated.

Asked by the host Bola Ray whether he is sure the NDC is putting itself together for the 2020 polls; he replied: “I can assure you that.”

Responding to a question on why John Mahama lost the 2016 election, he said it would be difficult to say “but I think so many things.”

According to him, former President Mahama did his best to keep the NDC in power, but the lost was meant to happen and that “it is something that we should take with ease.”

Making reference to the speech he delivered at Cape Coast stadium in 2016 during one of the party’s numerous activities heading into the 2016 election, he said he “did draw the attention of the party and everybody about the likely outcome of the results particularly the parliamentary perspective.”