Osei-Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, the former majority leader of parliament has boldly stated former President Akufo-Addo is not to blame for the New Patriotic Party’s 2024 election defeat.
Osei-Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has rejected the Executive Director of Global InfoAnalytics, Mussa Dankwah who projected that 80 percent of voters blamed former president Akufo-Addo for the NPP loss in the 2024 elections.
Speaking on Peace FM, Mussah Dankwah detailed, “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?”.
“I felt pity for Bawumia honestly speaking, I did. You could see the man’s energy in the campaign, but all was for nothing. He could not do anything”, he revealed.
Mussah Dankwah further added that Dr Bawumia tried to move away from Akufo-Addo when he claimed he was merely a mate.
“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.
He further blamed the former finance minister, Ken Ofori Atta was also to blame for Bawumia’s defeat.
“In terms of personally blaming him, he runs like fourth in the level of a 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”, he added.
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.
As political commentators and members of the NPP fingered Akufo-Addo for the NPP defeat Osei Kyei Mensa-Bonsu has rejected those claims.
According to him, Everyone is to be blamed for the NPP’s defeat.
Speaking in an interview on Peace FM he stated, “The issues are two, the people that we asked, 20 percent of our loss is from the Akufo-Addo government or is it 60 percent. We cannot say it like that, somebody did a report and said 87 respondents blame President Akufo-Addo and his government, the 87 percent is the people
Everyone is to be blamed for the NPP’s defeat, everyone has a share in the blame, and all we need to do is to accept blame and move on to rebuild the party”.
The former member of parliament further added that the NPP focus must be building the party back and not pointing fingers.
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