The Acting Upper East Regional Minister, Tangoba Abayage, is urging members and sympathizers of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to desist from blaming some personalities in the party as the cause of the region’s poor performance in the December 7, 2020, presidential and Parliamentary elections.
Some party supporters across the region have resorted to blaming each other for being the causal agents for the overwhelming defeat the NPP suffered in the just ended general polls where it won one out of 15 parliamentary seats.
While some blame the Regional and Constituency Executives of the party, others blame some government appointees for doing too little to ensure victory for the NPP in the region.
But Madam Abayage, who failed to win the Navrongo Central Seat for the NPP, urged the party supporters to discontinue the blame game as according to her, such actions could bring about division.
She urged the aggrieved party supporters to redirect their energies into fetching out the factors that led to their defeat and tackle them; rather than pointing accusing fingers at each other.
She said “Nana Addo has won emphatically by over 500,000 votes; we should be celebrating that. We should be happy that he is there. We should be doing introspection to find out; we must stop the blame game it wouldn’t help us, it will further divide the party. We may sit down and say yes, we should have done this right, we should have done that right; but I will plead that we should stop that person is the cause that person is the cause.”
Madam Abayage further stated that, she could not understand why the NPP suffered such defeat in the region, despite campaigning more than all other political parties and delivering what she described as massive development for the people of Upper East.
She spoke in an interview with Bolgatanga-based Dreamz FM on Monday.
Source: A1Radioonline.com|101.1MHz|David Azure|Ghana
