Our Defeat Isn’t About Removing Leaders; Let’s Sit Back And Rethink – NPP Youth Organizer

NPP Youth Organizer, Salam Mustapha has shared his sentiments on his party’s humiliating defeat in the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections.

The elections resulted in a landslide victory for President John Dramani Mahama and parliamentary members of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The NPP flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, former Vice President of Ghana, polled over 4 million votes while President John Mahama garnered over 6 million votes.

Following the NPP’s defeat, there have calls for the removal of the current leaders among other demands.

But Salam Mustapha disagrees with the plan to dissolve the current leadership stressing “if we don’t take our time to build the needed blocks and we do the same thing over again, we will get the same results again”.

He rather called for self-introspection and the resolution of their internal conflicts as a remedy for their deficiencies.

“We all have to sit back and rethink; do deep introspections. Because when you look at the results, 1.7 million difference, is a huge number. It communicates a lot to you; numbers mean something. If the results were close, we could blame it on the youth wing or some other wing and that’s why there is such a shortfall but rather you see that it is holistic meaning there was something wrong with the entire system.

“Whether you like it or not, you have to admit something went wrong and what is government’s fault, it should go there and the part which is the party’s mistake, it should also be put squarely where it belongs to”, he said during Peace FM’s “Kokrokoo” show.

Source: Ghmessenger.com