The Executive Director of Global InfoAnalytics, Mussa Dankwah, has revealed that 80% of Ghanaians voted against the NPP’s presidential candidate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, because of former President Akufo-Addo.
According to Mussa Dankwah, Ghanaians voted against Dr Mahamudu Bawumia because of his tide to Akufo-Addo.
He noted that Dr Bawumia tried to move away from Akufo-Addo when he stated he was just a mere mate in the Akufo-Addo government.
Speaking on Peace FM, Mussah Dankwah detailed, “We have done some work; I think the blame goes to Nana Addo, about 80 percent of voters blame Nana Addo for the NPP lost. 80 percent, and that is very huge and secondly, Bawumia, not for his campaign performance, by his tide to Nana Addo, he could not distance himself from Nana Addo”.
“If you remember those mate arguments, he was trying to in the minds of people to move away from Nana Addo that would have helped if people believed in him, but because they didn’t believe that, they didn’t buy into that”, he added.
Mussah Dankwah further added, “In terms of personally blaming him, he runs like fourth in the level of tier of blaming as a person. Ofori Atta comes third, before Bawumia. Nana Addo is the key issue, after him was Bawumia’s closeness to Nana Addo, and then we have Ken Ofori Atta and the Bawumia as a person.
So, we put the issue down so we can know exactly where to lay the blame, but mostly the blame went to Nana Addo, it was his legacy and his record that Bawumia had to run on, and the experience people had at the time was not good”, he noted.
Mussah Dankwah added that former president Akufo-Addo directing chiefs to get up and greet him was also to blame.
“Let’s be frank, some of the things he was doing and saying, politically speaking, if he was running himself, he would not have done that. Let’s speak the truth, look at the chiefs issues come on, which chief will tell his people to vote for them after telling them to stand and greet you at a durbar”, he added.
Meanwhile, the NPP Member of Parliament for Effiduase Asokore, Dr Ayew Afriyie, has also asserted that Bawumia was punished by the ills of Akufo-Addo.
He noted that the 2024 elections were more like a referendum against the leadership of the Akufo-Addo government and blamed former President Akufo-Addo’s arrogance for the NPP’s defeat in the 2024 elections.
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