A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has warned members of the NPP not to wallow in sorrow, else they will stay in opposition.
He noted that NPP must stop feeling sorry for themselves and be bold in defending what they did in government under former President Akufo-Addo.
Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko cautioned that NPP members indulging in self-pity could dampen and weaken their resolve ahead of the 2028 elections.
Speaking at an event for some NPP members abroad, Gabby Otchere-Darko stated, “Stop feeling sorry because sometimes, if you are not careful and you feel too sorry for yourself, you begin to lose confidence in yourself. You must be bolder in defending what you did, you must be humble in accepting where you fell short, and you must have the confidence enough to say in spite of this and that, I can tell you I built more roads than any government that has spent the number of time I spent in office.
I can tell you I did more for health, agriculture, education, military, the police, I did more for so many areas. You can say all that because the facts are there”.
Gabby added, “Have the humility to accept that there were some omissions and commissions that could have been done better or differently. But don’t wallow in sorrow, if you wallow in sorrow, you will go down or stay where you are”.
He further added former Akufo-Addo government did not snub the Ashanti region, “I heard somebody saying in the Ashanti Region that we let Ashantis down because we didn’t fix their roads. NPP let Ashantis down because they didn’t have flyovers. But I had been in meetings where MPs from the Ashanti region had said that they did not need flyovers, but they want their community roads done, and in politics, you are supposed to give people what they say they want, not what you think they want.
They wanted their community roads, and when you look at the number of roads that were done in Ashanti per capita across the country, you can’t say NPP let Ashanti Region down. Yet an NPP person was apologising for disappointing the Ashantis for neglecting the Ashanti region”.
Meanwhile, Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu, the former Majority Leader, has urged his fellow NPP members to acknowledge the mistakes made during their time in power, apologise and move on.
Speaking on Channel One TV’s The Point of View, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu stated, “The way to go is to own up to certain things and move. You remember not too long ago, Dr Bawumia at a forum even offered an apology that we did our best, but given the circumstances that eschew Post-COVID-19, a few things were done perhaps upon reflection, we should have done it better.
For that reason, I apologise for the things that went wrong. We are not angels; we have learnt useful lessons going forward, and we will do much better. Even some within the party took him on, some said if you are apologising, apologies on your part don’t include me. I didn’t do anything wrong”.
He added, “How can somebody speak like that? You are a cabinet minister. Decisions are taken at the cabinet level, a collective decision that comes out. And then we have somebody say we didn’t get everything right, we apologise for the things we didn’t get right, and as a former cabinet minister, you say As for you, you are not part of it”.
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