Mahama blames NDC illiterate agents for defeat

• Posted on April 30, 2021April 30, 2021
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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The former flagbearer for the National Democratic Congress, John Dramani Mahama in a report stated the deployment of “illiterate” agents to some polling stations caused them the 2020 presidential elections.

The statement by the former president was made at the annual conference of the NDC’s Professionals Forum on Thursday, April 29, 2021.

“Every region was asked to account for its performance in the 2020 elections. They came with reports and there was one region who stated that ‘some of our party agents were illiterate, they could not read or write.

“So it is obvious that they themselves have started doing a review of what went right or what went wrong. What they did well, leading to a positive outcome and what they could have done better,” he said.

Also, John Mahama charged the NDC professionals to be vigilant and next time take the position of electoral officers in the next election as that could save them from a lot of harm.

“If you have the qualification to be presiding officer or other electoral officer apply for it. Our opponent have taken advantage of it, so you find that when the EC advertises, many of their people apply and you know what kind of advantages that can give them.

“And so we need to get more of our members including our student movement to get involved in becoming party agents at polling stations,”