The defeat of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) can be attributed to several reasons and not limited to voter apathy as the party is claiming, Ransford Gyampo, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana is asserting.
He has listed some of the reasons which he says led to the apathy by Ghanaians on Saturday, December 07, 2024.
These reasons, he says, is what the NPP should be focused on to foster their future attempts in winning elections in the country, and “stop tickling themselves and laughing.”
According to him, if the party fails to address these issues and limit the cause of their woes on apathy, it would shield the failures of the current administration which led to the party’s abysmal performance at the just-ended polls.
Speaking on the KeyPoints on TV3 Saturday, December 28, 2024, Gyampo explained that “people actually did not go out to vote because; the supposed incompetent person was adjudged to be more competent than the competent one, because they felt let down and very disappointed, because of corruption, arrogance, economic mismanagement by fake holy people, because of nepotistic governance of family and friends and concubines that all coalesced to render the hitherto NPP fanatics and other election kingmakers hopeless in the political elite.”
His comments follow the NPP’s announcement that it is going to set up a committee to investigate the factors that led to the party’s defeat in the just ended elections, handing the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) a two-thirds majority in parliament and a huge gap in the presidential race.
National Chairman of the party, Stephen Ayesu Ntim, revealed this in a press briefing on Monday, December 23, 2024.
He said the proposed Election Review Committee will engage party stakeholders and the general public to fish out the factors that contributed to the defeat. This, Mr. Ntim noted, will inform the party’s reforms to strengthen it for the future.
“The party will in January 2025 set up an effective and objective Election Review Committee to undertake a postmortem 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 stated.
The party Chairman added that one critical area the committee will examine would be whether to have a constitutional amendment to restructure the party’s internal decision-making, including the mode of electing presidential and parliamentary candidates, as well as party executives.
