Outgoing Member of Parliament for Subin, Eugene Boakye Antwi has said that the supreme majority that the president-elect John Dramani Mahama is having in Parliament will present a huge challenge to him relating to managing expectations.
He wondered how Mr Mahama was going to satisfy all these lawmakers who canvassed for votes for him during the campaign.
If the expectation is not managed properly, he said, Mr Mahama could fall.
Speaking on the Good Morning Ghana show on Thursday, January 12, he said “I must also advise John Mahama, that he has the largest Majority ever but managing expectations comes from Parliament. John Mahama will fall or rise by Parliament, mark my words.
“We have seen it before with 169 MPs, you can’t make all of them ministers and deputy ministers but at least you must know that once they are MPs, they have brought something to the table by canvassing for you.”
Eugene Boakye Antwi also attributed the defeat of the New Patriotic Party in the 2024 elections, partly, to the failure of the NPP to respond to the never-ending accusations of corruption and state capture made against government officials by lawmaker for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa.
He expressed the view that the middle class bought into the revelations made by Mr Ablakwa and punished the NPP for it in the elections.
Speaking on the Good Morning Ghana show on Thursday, December 12, he said “Okudzeto is a minority MP, he is doing these dawn broadcasts against our party and we don’t respond to them?”
The host of the programme reported that ” it is because you don’t have a response.”
He then replies “But why didn’t you have a response? So the middle classes in our country were hoodwinked or bought into what Okudzeto was doing and punished us.”
Eugene Boakye Antwi further stated that the NPP also lost because of apathy.
The Managing Director of the State Transport Corporation (STC), Nana Akomea attributed the defeat of the NPP in the 2024 elections to apathy.
Based on the presidential results announced by the Electoral Commission, he said about 2 million NPP supporters who voted in 2020 did not vote in 2024.
He observed that the votes obtained by president-elect John Dramani Mahama in 2024 were the same number of votes he got in 2020.
Speaking on Peace FM’s Kokorokoo, the former Director of Communications of the NPP said “The same 6.3 million votes he had in 202, that was the same results he had in 2024. if you look at NPP’s vote. from 6.7 million in 2020 has dropped to 4.6 million, and about 2 million NPP members who voted in 2020 didn’t vote in 2024. Clearly, the NPP lost the elections because our supporters did not go and vote.”
The certified presidential results released by the Electoral Commission (EC) reveal massive voter apathy within the NPP.
Over two million (2,073,283) voters who supported the NPP in the 2020 elections chose not to vote in the 2024 polls, leading to their electoral defeat. In 2020, President Nana Akufo-Addo garnered 6.7 million (6,730,587) votes, representing 51.30% of total ballots cast. In contrast, the NPP’s 2024 presidential candidate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, secured just over 4.6 million (4,657,304) votes, a significant drop to 41.61%.
