Joseph Kpemka, the former Deputy Attorney General, has admitted the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) defeat in the 2024 general elections was a tsunami.
According to Joseph Kpemka, some NPP bigwigs anticipated defeat on election night.
Speaking on Channel One TV on The Point of View, Joseph Kpemka recalled, “By 10 pm, I knew that we had lost the 2024 elections on December 7.
Because if you look at the December 2016 elections, by 8 pm to 9 pm, the reports we were getting from our IT wizard, Joseph Anokye, were very clear that we were leading”,
He added, “In the same way, in 2020, by 8 pm to 9 pm, the reports we were getting online from his office indicated that we were leading. But this time around, it was very silent and sad. So, we knew by 11 pm to 12 am that things were not going well for us at all”.
“It was a tsunami, and it was a national one that hit us hard, and the circumstances that led to that are very clear and obvious, both local and international. A lot of factors played a role,” he said.
Joseph Kpemka suggested, “If elections were to be conducted today, I’m very convinced that the performance that we recorded will improve tremendously, I’m very convinced”.
In related news, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the NPP Member of Parliament for Ofoase-Ayirebi, has listed some of the factors that caused the party’s defeat in the 2024 elections.
According to Oppong Nkrumah, the Prof. Mike Oquaye-led committee came out with four factors that caused the NPP’s defeat.
He revealed that the Mike Oquaye-led committee highlighted the economic challenges in the country, the NPP corporate governance, internal conflicts within the party, and exclusion from decision-making processes.
Speaking on Channel One TV’s The Point of View, Oppong Nkrumah detailed, “The Mike Oquaye committee was established to review our performance in the election. In every election, whether we win or lose, we do an introspection. The committee report highlighted four major issues.
“There were issues of governance policy, particularly on the economy, that were raised. It appears that was a major item. The majority of people said they either didn’t vote or voted against us because of their view that we had not been able to resolve the economic challenges robustly enough, in their opinion.”
He further added, “There were issues of party corporate governance. So you will find that things broke down on the ground in some parts because of issues of corporate governance. Corporate governance within the party had its own challenges.
“Number three, we had issues of operations—who has the power to do this and that. And finally, you had the perception at the party that when it comes to decision-making at the party, a lot of people are excluded. People who have to participate don’t participate, and the ownership of those decisions and advancing the course of those decisions suffer.”
Meanwhile, on the Electoral Commission’s official website, John Dramani Mahama, leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), won the 2024 elections with 6,591,790 votes, representing 56.42%, while his closest opponent, the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, secured 4,877,611 representing 41.7%.
