The Executive Director of the Global InfoAnalytics, Mr. Mussa Dankwah expressed that the NPP is better off without Former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, standing as their presidential candidate in the 2028 general elections.
He was speaking on Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana program last Tuesday.
According to him, Dr. Bawumia’s representation of the party as the presidential candidate in the 2024 elections, leading to the unprecedented defeat of the NPP, was systemic, and it requires that Dr. Bawumia steps down to focus on rebuilding.
“It will be in the best interest of the NPP if Bawumia says I won’t run again, on his own, not to be pushed. If he does that, the NPP can begin to rebuild the party earlier without him, because the problems he brings are systematic,” he said.
The NPP, following their defeat, organised a press conference and announced that a committee would be formed to review the party’s performance in the 2024c general elections.
Speaking on behalf of the party and expressing their disappointment in their defeat, Mr. Stephen Ayesu Ntim, National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), addressed the press, saying, “We were very hopeful and positive and our aim was to secure an empathic victory at the polls, and we went very hard at it. As a party, we put in our best efforts in the campaign. I commend all members of the various campaign teams of the party, from polling stations to the national level, who also put in their very best in the competition.”
Mr. Ntim expressed that, “there is no doubt that the outcome of the election was not what we hoped for. We may not have won the battle, but we haven’t lost the war on the quest for a better Ghana, shaped by the ideals and the philosophies of the New Patriotic Party.”
He also mentioned the setting up of the committee to review the party’s election results. “The party will, in January 2025, set up an effective and objective election review committee to take a post-mortem into the outcome of the election. The committee will engage all party stakeholders and the general public on the factors and circumstances, leading to our defeat,” he said.
In the official declaration of the 2024 general elections by the Electoral Commission (EC) on December 9, 2024, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), experienced a shocking defeat, with Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia polling 4,657,304 votes, whereas his opponent, John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), garnered a whooping 6,328,397 votes, gaining a landslide victory.
Many supporters of the NPP related the defeat of the party to their representing candidate Dr. Bawumia, expressing that he was not the right candidate to represent the party in the presidential elections, hence, their defeat.
Mussa Dankwah closely predicted the defeat of the NPP in the 2024 election, giving an almost perfect percentage. His prediction was severely criticized by some known associates of the NPP, with many calling for people to disregard him.
Following the announcement of the presidential election results, Mussa received praise from even those who had called for his prediction to be disregarded.
In an interview with Starr FM’s Morning Starr, Mussa expressed that himself and the Global InfoAnalytics feel vindicated following the announcement of results.
“We feel really vindicated on the sense that despite all the negativity against me and my personality and the kind of ridiculous statements that were made by many other prominent persons in this country, I think we’ve felt that we have proven ourselves, and we are not emotionally attach to the data. Despite our personal feelings, that doesn’t override our data. We have never put emotions in reading our data, it’s been purely data and nothing else and once we do that and it has been skill that you have to learn to do, I think you will feel vindicated,” he said.
Source: Dehotpress
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