John Mahama did his best -Alban Bagbin

The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin has revealed that, 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.”

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.

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.”