John Dramani Mahama’s Campaign Manager, Joshua Alabi, has attributed the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) resounding victory in the December 7 general elections to the party’s ability to reflect deeply on its past shortcomings and implement strategic corrections.
Speaking in an interview with TV3 Ghana on Sunday, December 15, Alabi stated that the NDC learned valuable lessons from its defeat in the 2020 elections and worked diligently to ensure that those mistakes were not repeated in the 2024 polls.
According to Alabi, one of the key reasons for the NDC’s loss in 2020 was the absence of branch executives in several constituencies, particularly in the Ashanti region, a critical region in Ghana’s electoral landscape.
This oversight, Alabi noted, weakened the NDC’s grassroots mobilisation efforts, leading to poor results in those areas.
“We brought a lot of lessons from 2020 to 2024 and we did some work where top persons within the party were made to visit the various constituencies to assess what went wrong and we realised that we didn’t have branch executives in some parts of the Ashanti region and we were scoring zero in those areas and so we started seriously and built the branches.
“We also undertook a registration exercise and got executives in those branches and that solved about 50 percent of the work and then we moved to the Election Directorate, and we merged it with the IT department and those are some of the lessons we brought along from 2020,” he said.
Alabi disclosed that the party took a methodical approach to address the issue where senior party officials were tasked with visiting various constituencies to conduct assessments of the challenges.
Alabi added that the NDC’s decision to integrate the Elections Directorate with the IT Department was also a critical reform.
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