The committee in its 455 page report noted that the imposition of candidates by some unseen hands in the party played a key role in the NDC’s humiliating defeat in the 2016 election. That, according to the committee’s report, cited by Today, was orchestrated through the use of the party’s biometric register which was introduced for the first time by the NDC. The committee, after 6 months of work, last week submitted its report to the national executives of the NDC in Accra. On the election of national officers, the Botchwey committee report indicated that the election of Mr. Kofi Portuphy and Kofi Adams as the party’s National Chairman and National Organiser respectively was the genesis of the party’s defeat. It is for these reasons that the report, among its recommendations, urged the NDC’s hierarchy to “restore the integrity of the party’s biometric register.”

Source: GhanaWeb June 27, 2017 06:00 UTC