NPP presidential aspirants for the 2028 elections
GhanaWeb has intercepted “fake” polls believed to have been sponsored by two candidates in the NPP flagbearer race.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has officially announced it will go to the polls in January next year to elect its flagbearer for the 2028 elections and apart from former Vice President of Ghana and 2024 Flagbearer, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, who is widely tipped to win the race, other candidates have also announced their intentions to contest but two polls so far released have downplayed their candidature.
However, in a bid to play the optics game and send a signal of support, the two candidates (names withheld), have hurriedly sponsored their own polls which are set to hit the news stands tomorrow, Ghanaweb has discovered.
Interestingly, both sponsored polls are coming out at the same time with one claiming a commanding over 50% lead for one of the candidates while another poll sponsored by a new entrant to the race would claim a ”huge surge” for that new entrant with a narrative that the race is now a “three-horse race”.
As part of their game plan, these candidates have arranged with some news outlets for front pages of both newspapers and websites from Monday, July 7, 2025.
Both candidates who separately organized for these solicited publications to highlight their arranged polls have had clashes in some publications.
In one of the publications scheduled for tomorrow in a popular pro-NPP newspaper, both candidates have unknowingly arranged for the front pages with contrasting poll results, according to grapevine information.
A source indicates that one of the hired agencies behind this fictitious survey is Future Governance Analytics Project (FGAP) and this sponsored work is said to be their first survey.
Also, one of the hired companies which did the arch-chair research promoting one of the candidates is called Sanity Africa.
Intriguingly, the company appears to have been set up for this particular job as the date for the creation of its website was only two months ago.
Ghanaweb has been told by a source close to both aspirants that their reason for sponsoring the survey in their favor is to neutralise what the growing perception that Dr Bawumia is the right choice to lead the NPP as flagbearer.
“Recent polls including the one by Musah Dankwa’s Global InfoAnalytics have dampened a lot of spirits of some of our people, so, our advisors argued it is important to also respond,” a lead campaigner of one of the aspirants said.
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