Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, a former presidential candidate for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), has projected that the NPP will face stiff opposition in the general elections in 2024.
In an interview with Citi TV’s “The Point of View,” the former minister of environment, science, technology, and innovation said that given the NPP’s performance during the previous seven years, maintaining political power will be challenging.
He said that the NPP “over-promised and under-delivered” on its pledges to Ghanaians, making it harder for the party to prevail in the 2024 elections. He made this claim to presenter Bernard Avle.
Additionally, Professor Frimpong-Boateng stated that he had no hope in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), implying that neither party is ideal.
“It will be difficult for the NPP to win the 2024 elections. It is a fact that they [the NPP] have over-promised and under-delivered, but everything is possible, but the NDC is also not giving me any hope.”
Given how the NDC had mishandled the nation when Akufo-Addo assumed office in 2016, Professor Frimpong-Boateng said he was confident that the NPP would hold onto power for a long time, but it would turn out that he was mistaken in comparing the two regimes.
“When I was in government, I said the way the NDC had mismanaged the country, we were going to help the president and work so that the NPP would still be there even after forty years and there would be no romantic ideas about the NDC again and now look at where we are. I thought we were going to work and there would be no romantic ideas about Mahama and the NDC ever coming back.”
“There should be a change in the two political parties and how they do their things because there are very good people in the NDC same as the NPP,” he further proposed.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
