Managing Director of the State Transport Company (STC), Nana Akomea has said that his disappointment with the defeat of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2024 elections was because the candidate of the NPP, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia did not get the chance to implement his good policy for Ghana.
Nana Akomea says he still believes Dr Bawumia has the best ideas for turning the country around.
During the elections, Dr Bawumia garnered approximately 41.86% of the votes, while Mahama triumphed with 56.49%.
Speaking on this matter, Nana Akomea said on Monday, December 16 “No, I haven’t recovered. The main reason for my struggle is the lost opportunity. I still believe Bawumia has the best ideas for turning the country around. That is my biggest disappointment.”
Earlier, Nana Akomea stated that based on the presidential results announced by the Electoral Commission, about 2 million the New Patriotic Party 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 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%.
