Eugene Boakye Antwi, the former Member of Parliament for Subin, has admitted that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) failed to listen to Ghanaians are was punished in the 2024 elections.
The former lawmaker also admitted that the NPP’s defeat came as no surprise to him and some members.
Speaking on Channel One TV’s Face to Face on Tuesday, July 1, Eugene Boakye Antwi stated, “I’m not worried because some of us anticipated it [2024 electoral defeat]. If you fail to listen to people, they punish you. So, as politicians, we must constantly be listening and hearing people out. And that is what we failed to do”.
“We have to be very frank with ourselves, the best years of Akufo-Addo’s 8 years [tenure] were 2018, 2020, before COVID-19 struck. Those were his best years.
In your first term, you are expected to be voted for the second term, so you’re working towards your second term. So there’s more cooperation, and because you know you have to go and face the electorate again, you are careful of certain mistakes,” he explained.
“But the second term, because you’re not going to contest again, I think all hell broke loose and it cost us,” he added.
Eugene Boakye Antwi further boldly stated he wants President John Dramani Mahama to fail.
According to Eugene Boakye Antwi, he wants his party, the NPP, to win the 2028 elections, so he wants John Mahama and the NDC to fail.
He boldly asserted that the NDC cannot do much in terms of what they promised Ghanaians.
Boakye Antwi added, “I want him [Mahama] to fail, I want my party to win the 2028 elections. I don’t want him to fail, as in fail. But I know that NDC cannot do much in terms of what they promised”.
“I have been in government, and sometimes, as a President, your appointees will make sure that you fail. The kind of things I saw when we were in government are the same Ghanaians in the NDC, so it will be transferred across there,” he explained.
He reaffirmed, “I don’t want Mahama to succeed as in succeeding, because I want my party [NPP] to win… In terms of the actual management of the economy, I don’t think the NDC has what it takes”.
