The Executive Director for Global InfoAnaylytics, Mussa Dankwah, has dismissed the assertion that the NPP’s latest poll results do not conform with the party’s national election fortunes.
Since 2004, the New Patriotic Party has not fallen below 44 percent in every general election.
But responding to these concerns on TV3 New Day on Tuesday, April 9, Mr. Dankwah noted that general election outcomes “do not tell the strength of a party”.
This, he said, is because in the general elections, swing voters, or “floating voters,” and supporters of the opposition party may end up voting in support of a particular candidate.
Asked whether the recent poll considered trend analysis of the NPP’s election fortunes and the fact that NPP has not secured less than 44 percent, Mr. Dankwah said, “People who vote for presidential candidates are not just NPP and NDC people. There are NPP people who vote for NDC candidates. NDC too vote for NPP candidates and we have floating voters.”
“So, what you get in the election result is not your party members,” he stated.
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He further argued that critics who say the poll results are flawed do not have any data to prove the number of floating voters who voted for the NPP in previous elections.
“But by polling right now, we can pull data to see what proportion of NPP people voted for Nana Addo in 2020 and how many of NDC voted [for Nana Addo]. So we have the data, but they don’t have anything.
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“So what I am saying is that the election result doesn’t show the strength of the party. It doesn’t because it is the person that wins, not a party that wins, it is the person, that is why people defect from NDC to vote for NPP candidates,” said Mr. Dankwah.
In the recent polls, the flagbearer of the opposition NDC, John Dramani Mahama, leads Vice President Dr. Bawumia by nearly a 20 percent margin.
