Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, the New Patriotic Party’s prospective flagbearer, claims that he is running for president of Ghana because he wants to represent his party in that capacity.
According to him, NPP to reclaim its previous glory, there are significant fissures that need to be fixed inside his party.
He pointed out that the present hung parliament in Ghana is a clear indication of how badly the party is damaged.
He claimed that he is the best person to fix the party’s bad performance in the 2020 elections while speaking on JoyNews’ PM Express.
“I want to be President because I want to be the flagbearer of the NPP which is what is driving me. To give an opportunity for me to make a contribution to the New Patriotic Party. As you saw in 202 elections, the results were not satisfactory, now we have a 137, NDC has a 137. We came from 169, we lost net of 36 constituencies, our presidential candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who beat Mahama by 1.5 million votes, unprecedented in the 4th Republic, votes dropped to only half a million in 2020.
“And the puzzling thing is given the first term of Akufo-Addo where there was no Covid and things were running for this country with the growth of the economy and so on, one would have thought that Ghanaians would actually give us a pat on the back by voting for even higher numbers than 2016, but what happened? We nearly lost parliament.
“And now of course 137-137, the only difference between Majority and Minority is one independent candidate who decided to work with us, who was previously a Member of Parliament for NPP. So you see that we’re not in a good place” he said.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
