Member of Parliament for Ofoase Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah who has been reelected has told the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to welcome all the concerns raised by their members or sympathisers who did not turn out to vote in the 2024 general elections, leading to the party’s defeat.
Mr Oppong Nkrumah stated that, in his constituency for instance, there were about 4000 members or supporters of the party who did not vote.
He further indicated that the reasons they gave were the same stories across the country which led to the party’s loss.
“You will find on the ground that there are about 4000 party members or about 4000 of our party supporters who refused to vote and they explained to us some of the reasons for which they were angry and refusing to vote that kind of allin with the story across the country.
“what we have to do is embrace the kind of feedback our members and supporters who didn’t vote have given us and go back to the grounds and work with it,” he said.
Also commenting on this matter, the Managing Director of the State Transport Corporation (STC), Nana Akomea attributed the defeat of the NPP in the 2024 elections to apathy.
Based on the presidential results announced by the Electoral Commission, he said about 2 million NPP supporters who voted in 2020 did not vote in 2024.
He observed that the votes obtained by president-elect John Dramani Mahama in 2024 were the same number of votes he got in 2020.
Speaking on Peace FM’s Kokorokoo, the former Director of Communications of the NPP said “The same 6.3 million votes he had in 202, that was the same results he had in 2024. if you look at NPP’s vote. from 6.7 million in 2020 has dropped to 4.6 million, and about 2 million NPP members who voted in 2020 didn’t vote in 2024. Clearly, the NPP lost the elections because our supporters did not go and vote.”
The certified presidential results released by the Electoral Commission (EC) reveal massive voter apathy within the NPP.
Over two million (2,073,283) voters who supported the NPP in the 2020 elections chose not to vote in the 2024 polls, leading to their electoral defeat. In 2020, President Nana Akufo-Addo garnered 6.7 million (6,730,587) votes, representing 51.30% of total ballots cast. In contrast, the NPP’s 2024 presidential candidate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, secured just over 4.6 million (4,657,304) votes, a significant drop to 41.61%.
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