John Boadu, the immediate past CEO of SIGA and former General Secretary of the NPP has revealed that had the 2 million NPP voters let their anger loose, the NPP would have gotten 20 percent in the 2024 elections.
John Boadu asserted that the NPP could have gotten about 20% in the presidential election Had the 2m voters let their anger loose on the ballot.
According to John Boadu, the 2 million people who decided not to vote were unhappy with the Akufo-Addo Bawumia government, and they would have voted against the NPP.
Speaking during a live interview on Kumasi’s Otec FM, John Boadu detailed, “We are even lucky that about 2.7 million people did not vote because they might have voted against us. Because the people were very angry, and that was why they didn’t want to vote.
So, it is good they did not come to vote. We thank them. We praise them; they have done very well. Because considering why they chose not to vote if they did and it was against us, we would have even gotten 20%”, he added.
John Boadu further reiterated, “So, it was good they did not come to vote. Now, we have to look for the reason why they did not vote and work on it.”
Meanwhile, the updated results of the 2024 presidential election by the Electoral Commission of Ghana revealed President John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), secured 6,591,790 votes, representing 56.42% of valid votes cast.
While, former Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) secured 4,877,611 votes, accounting for 41.75%.
