Former Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Obiri Boahen, has stated that the party’s defeat in the 2024 general elections was largely caused by members of the party itself.
According to Nana Obiri Boahen, several decisions and policies of the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government, as well as individuals within the party’s leadership, contributed significantly to the defeat.
“The NPP’s defeat in 2024 was mostly self-inflicted. About 80% was due to NPP members and their leaders. They don’t listen when you advise them. Let me give you an example: as a political party, we don’t have dialysis machines, and you say you want to build a National Cathedral? Even with the National Cathedral, you went abroad with an airplane to import a stone. Every Ghanaian is concerned about how to feed themselves, high electricity costs, fuel prices, and transport fare increases. These things will infuriate them, and they will vote against you,” he told Okay FM’s Kwame Nkrumah Tikese in an interview.
However, he absolved the party’s 2024 flagbearer, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, from any such blame.
He further disputed assertions that the party’s defeat was influenced by the flagbearer, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, or other factors such as his religious and ethnic background.
Nana Obiri Boahen asserted that Dr Bawumia remains the NPP’s strongest candidate in their attempt to reorganise and recapture power in 2028, despite internal opposition for the flagbearership.
“They are good candidates deserving of being flagbearer, but given the situation, history, and tradition as hindsight, nobody can beat Bawumia,” he stated on the issue of other contenders competing the former vice president for the vacant role.
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