Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alan Bagbin has indicated that although President John Mahama did an incredible work during his tenure as President, it is time that he steps back and give the opportunity to another face to lead the party.
According to him, the former President, John Dramani Mahama will lose the primaries of the party should he declare his intentions to go through the primaries to get the nod to lead the National Democratic Congress in 2020.
“We are now going to go out there with our messages and we will give the good people of our party as to which personality and which message they prefer and I believe that by the end of the day, I don’t see His Excellency the former president [Mahama] winning. I don’t see it,” he said.
He further said that “We were under him, he was the first gentleman, so he had all of us supporting him 100 percent, so if that support has now reduced to 58 percent, which means that 58 percent of us are now supporting him, that is good news for us [the aspirants].
Speaking on a research done by the University of Ghana that puts the former President ahead of other contestants he said “It means as we go along, that will still be ebbing away and it is most likely that by the time we get to the national primaries, it would have reduced to something below…I see myself as the winner”.
He, however, indicated that should Mahama win, he and other aspirants will throw their weight behind him“we will have to go together and I will give him 100 percent of my support but I don’t see him winning at the end of the day.”
Source:a1radioonline.com/Ghana
