Nana Akomea, Vice Chairman of the ‘Bawumia 2024 Campaign Team,’ has pointed out a significant decline in voter turnout for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2024 general elections.
In the December 7 poll, President-elect John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) secured a decisive victory with over 6.3 million votes, while Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia of the NPP garnered 4.6 million votes. The NDC also claimed a parliamentary majority, unseating several NPP Members of Parliament (MPs).
Speaking on Point Blank on Eyewitness News on Citi FM on Monday, December 16, Akomea revealed that around two million people who had voted for the NPP in 2020 did not participate in the 2024 elections, a factor he suggests contributed to the party’s defeat.
“What conclusion we can come to at this moment is to look at the results. The results clearly show that about two million people who voted for NPP in the 2020 elections did not vote for NPP in 2024. The NDC got about 6.2 something in 2020 and they got about 6.3, so it is reasonable to assume that their supporters turned up and they got a few more, maybe another 100,000 or so.
“Our votes reduced from 6.7 in 2020 to 4.6. Those two million people we don’t find them anywhere. We don’t find them voting for Mahama, we don’t find them voting for Alan Kyerematen and so on. So it is fair to assume that they stayed away,” Akomea stated.
He emphasised the need for the NPP to investigate the reasons behind this voter apathy.
“What we need to do is to find out the reason, some of the key reasons that made them stay away because they didn’t even go to the polls to vote for the party,” he added.
