Joyce
Bawah
Mogtari,
spokesperson
for
the
John
Mahama
Campaign
Team,
has
revealed
that
the
prolonged
power
outages
commonly
referred
to
as
‘Dumsor’
that
occurred
during
former
President
Mahama’s
tenure
had
a
significant
negative
impact
on
their
fortunes
in
the
2016
general
elections.
She
acknowledged
that
the
energy
crisis
was
a
major
setback
for
the
party,
contributing
to
their
electoral
defeat.
In
an
interview
with
Bernard
Avle
on
The
Point
of
View
on
Channel
One
TV,
Joyce
Bawah
Mogtari
explained
that
Mahama
was
committed
to
finding
solutions
to
the
energy
crisis,
rather
than
exploiting
it
for
political
gain.
According
to
Joyce
Bawah
Mogtari,
the
Mahama
administration
faced
a
daunting
task
in
trying
to
quickly
resolve
the
persistent
power
outages,
a
challenge
that
proved
difficult
to
overcome
despite
their
best
efforts.
“I
believe
strongly
and
maybe
because
I’m
very
close
to
the
campaign,
that
in
2016,
one
of
our
biggest
misfortunes
was
the
fact
that
we
had
these
crippling
power
outages.
“I
mean
look,
the
whole
of
Ghana
suffered
enormously
from
those
outages
and
people
were
up
in
arms.
Yes,
maybe
we
could
even
have
offered
solutions
in
a
much
quicker
time,
but
it
wasn’t
that
easy
to
do.
“This
was
a
country
that
over
the
years
depended
largely
on
Akosombo
Dam,
we
used
to
have
crawlers
telling
us
about
the
water
levels,
and
then
the
rain
patterns
changed,
and
then
climate
issues
happened.
And
somehow,
it
threw
us
completely
overboard.
Look,
it
was
not
in
Mr
Mahama’s
interest
for
that
whole
protracted
power
outage
to
have
actually
to
have
occurred,
but
it
happened,”
she
said.
The
Spokesperson
for
the
John
Mahama
Campaign
lamented
the
apparent
lack
of
empathy
from
Ghanaians
during
‘Dumsor,
stating
that
the
public
did
not
adequately
appreciate
the
efforts
of
the
Mahama
administration
to
address
the
issue.
“But
maybe
because
of
our
very
partisan
environment,
we
didn’t
get
the
level
of
sympathy
that
was
required
at
the
time
to
help
us
even
find
a
quicker
solution.
But
be
that
as
it
may,
what
happened
happened,”
the
Spokesperson
of
the
Mahama
Campaign
Team
stated.
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