Nana Akomea, Vice Chairman of the ‘Bawumia 2024 Campaign Team,’ has highlighted a sharp decline in voter turnout for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) during the 2024 general elections.
In the December 7 elections, President-elect John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) emerged victorious with over 6.3 million votes, while Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia of the NPP secured 4.6 million votes. The NDC also won a parliamentary majority, ousting several NPP Members of Parliament (MPs).
Speaking on Citi FM’s Point Blank segment of Eyewitness News on Monday, December 16, Akomea revealed that approximately two million voters who supported the NPP in 2020 did not turn up in 2024, a key factor he believes contributed to the party’s defeat.
“The results clearly show that about two million people who voted for the NPP in the 2020 elections did not vote for the party in 2024,” Akomea explained. “The NDC had around 6.2 million votes in 2020 and slightly increased to 6.3 million in 2024, indicating that their supporters turned out and they gained an additional 100,000 votes 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.
