The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has blamed the low turnout recorded at the just ended district level elections on the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) intensified ‘NO’ campaign for the botched December 17 referendum.
According to the party, the interest amongst electorates to participate in the exercise was fast developing until the NDC announced its decision not to back the referendum.
Communications Director of the NPP, Yaw Buaben Asamoa while responding to NDC flagbearer, John Mahama’s claim that the low turnout recorded in the District Assembly election was an indication that the canceled December 17 referendum was bound to fail, said the NDC must take full responsibility for the low turnout.
“We believe that it is because the NDC broke the consensus that is why interest in the election plummeted. There was interest being generated heavily, we were moving on the basis of consensus, because as the president said, this had nothing to do with NDC or NPP but out of ill-faith the NDC chose to turn it into a partisan process and turned round and broke the consensus that we had engineered,” Yaw Buaben Asamoa said in a Citi News interview.
The district-level election was held on December 17 across the country in all electoral areas.
While the election was generally peaceful, many polling stations recorded very low turnout compared to previous years of the election.
The December 17 election was to be held alongside a referendum on whether or not political parties must be allowed to actively participate by sponsoring candidates to stand as Metropolitan Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs).
But President Akufo-Addo in a televised address called for the withdrawal of the two Bills in parliament and directed the cancellation of the December 17 referendum to amend Article 55(3) which was to allow political parties to file candidates for district-level elections.
His decision was after some stakeholders, particularly the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) started advocating for a ‘NO’ vote in the referendum arguing that it was only worried that an amendment to Article 55 (3) will open district assemblies and unit committees to “the needless NDC-NPP polarisation.”
The stance of the NDC caught on with many Ghanaians who expressed concern about the move.
Source: citinewsroom.com
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I now understand why most npp supporters have defected to the NDC. Because if a party which has won 2016 elections by 1m votes keeps blaming NDC for anything they perceive unfavorable then it smacks of irresponsibility and that makes people lose confidence. Npp leaders are behaving like class one children. When a teacher asked them did you mark the wall with charcoal, children always respond it is the other pupil. You run economy for three years, collapse banks and when you are asked, you say its NDC. Meanwhile during the NDC's era these banks were working no matter their difficulties. If they ndc had remained in power nam1 will still be working, banks collapsed will still be working so stop this childish blame game and work hard to improve the lives of Ghanaians. This is why they voted you to power and not to blame ndc even when your wife doesn't come home early from the market.
Per this stoupid reasoning by buaben asamoah it means the npp has lost the 2020 elections in advance. If ndc could get the electorate not to go to the polls, they will surely npp voters not to vote but their teeming supporters will vote meaning NDC is likely to win by huge margins. Are these the people npp can use to lead their communications directorate? It's amazing, lawyers can argue this way.
Npp is now being run by drunkards and comedians who never learn anything and always take Ghanaians to be fuuulls. How will NDC be the cause of low turnout when even the afrobarometer predicted the even 2020 general elections will see low turnout. Is it lunacy that makes them act this way or they just don't care?