Pollster and Managing Editor of Dispatch, Mr. Ben Ephson has said it is too early to warm up for elections in 2024.
He said, “With only eight months, you have got three years and four months more to 2024, I think that all the politicians will be exhausted in a year and a half. They are flexing their muscles far too early,”.
His comment follows NDC’s 2020 flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama Thank you for a tour which has turned as warming up towards 2024.
Speaking on Techiman-based Akina FM’s on Tuesday, September 7, 2021, as part of his thank-you tour, Mr. Mahama said “We have learned our lessons from happenings during the 2020 polls. The 2024 elections will be won or lost at the polling station. It will be do-or-die at the polling stations. The right thing must be done during the polls. We will win the elections at the polling station and won’t wait for collation center results nor petition the Supreme Court if aggrieved,” he said.
But Mr. Efphson said the election is not a matter of dying at the polling station, it is a matter of just getting educated and loyal polling agents and that will be it.
He said “You don’t go and pick anybody on the street, tell the person I will make you a polling agent, I will give you GHS200 a day, I will give hundred, at the end of voting and counting I will give the other hundred. By 2:00pm that person who is not loyal to your party will take double the balance and sign the pink sheet and he leaves.
In a related Development, Nsawam-Adoagyiri lawmaker, Frank Annoh-Dompreh has condemned former President John Dramani Mahama for indicating that the 2024 general elections will be a do-or-die affair.
Mr. Frank Annoh-Dompreh said “It beats understanding how Mr. Mahama’s ‘Thank You Tour’ has degenerated into a platform for reckless commentary. How does a former President & former ECOWAS chair threaten electoral violence while belittling the ability of laws and the Supreme Court to deliver justice?
“Mr. Mahama must own up to his irresponsible statements and offer an unqualified apology to the people of Ghana: the people he hopes to lead.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
