The second deputy Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has stated that he is poised to defeat former President John Mahama in the race to become the next flagbearer for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
According to the Member of Parliament for the Nadowli-Kaleo constituency, he possesses the qualities to pip Mahama to NDC flagbearer ticket.
“He knows my capacity and has worked with me for many years as a minority leader and later as a minister of state,” the former Majority Leader in Parliament told GHOne TV’s Nana Aba Anamoah on political show State of Affairs.
He said Mahama’s leadership style led to his defeat in the 2016 elections as the first incumbent president under the Fourth Republic to have lost a general election.
Bagbin stressed Mahama lost the elections by over 800,000 votes to the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo because he refused to listen to advice from the party.
“So I know he’s a very nice person to deal with, he has the gift of the tongue, high accumulation of knowledge and the energy and vim, but it is the style of leadership that has left a lot of the people behind," he stated.
“The issue about lack of inclusiveness is very detrimental trait in political leadership. I think John [Mahama] would have been a very good president in a better democratic setting than Ghana. He did very well in terms of infrastructure and focused a lot on putting the basics in place. In trying to do this I think he outrun the party and left the party behind. His leadership style led to this,” the longest-serving MP in Ghana’s parliament opined.
He also stressed that despite the negative perceptions that he did not back Mahama's Presidential bid during the 2016 elections, he did his best to help him succeed.
“I’m grateful to the NDC as a party to be in leadership. I did all I could to help Mahama to succeed,” he stated.
Source: Graphic Online
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Both Mahama and Bagbin will be mince meat for Nana. I feel so good for the NPP if these two are the front runners for the NDC.
Yes, you can beat the president whose tenure saw guinea fowls flying to Burkina Faso. The most corrupt man in Ghana's history.
Bagbin in your dreams, Mahama will win you hands down, just try it.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE NORTHERNERS,U WONT HELP MAHAMA TO CONTEST AND WIN AGAIN BUT YOU ARE HERE TALKING ABOUT YOURSELF. IF THAT IS WHY YOU ALL UNDERMINE MAHAMA WITH NANA KONADU, THEN YOU ARE JOKING. GREEDY SELFISH MAN
another selfffish opportunist northerner who does nothing for his own pple and only think of power for himself. kwaaashhhia
any sensible ndc person will agree that mahama was a wrong choice. they had no option after mills death and had to give him the chance since he was already in the limelight. i believe ndc has better options than that incompetent, corrupt and greedy man.
U have been MP for Nadowli since 1993 - Show us one thing that u did for that place. Foooooooooooolish selffish northerner eddddiot
very true. Bagbin is more experienced and competent than Mahama. Mahama is soo corrupt a greedy man. everyone knows this for a fact even the NDC members themselves. so Bagbin wins the primaries AND HE WILL LOOSE AT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS TO PREZ NANA ADDO
mahama did very well in term of infrastructure????? really ?? His motivation was not to give you infrstructure it was to inflate cost and siphone money. we have seen in his time the shortest life span of raods in the history of the world. ashphalated roads could last for one rainy season , and the road is gone. a road could lats for 5 minths and its big port holes again. that is the infrstructure you talking about ??
Fact is fact ,and that is what you just said ,they are try to hide it but no you split the beans out .