Sammy Awuku, the Former National Organizer of the New Patriotic Party has revealed why the 2016 elections were easy for the party.
While juxtaposing his statement with the next general elections, the party’s former national organizer mentioned that it will be challenging for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to win the legislative and presidential elections in 2024,
He asserts that the NPP still has a lot of work to do to win Ghanaians’ support in 2024, but that, with effective communication, it can win over many Ghanaians.
Speaking at an NPP Youth Mentorship program in Accra, Awuku said “In 2024, we have to work times two to win the elections, I’m being brutally frank. In 2016, there was a considerable level of agitation for change, and the very reason why your campaign in 2024 will be different, is that the campaign in opposition is different from a campaign when you are in government.
“If nothing will remind you, what should remind you is that when you are in opposition, you use change, when you are in government, you use continuity.”
Between the NPP and National Democratic Congress (NDC), power has changed hands every eight years since the inception of the Fourth Republic in 1992.
In the same vein, Ghanaian media personality, Kwasi Kyei Darkwah (KKD) recently stated that the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) “breaking the 8” agenda for the 2024 elections is pointless. He claimed that whoever came up with the NPP’s slogan to “break the 8” lacks basic sense.
During an interview with TV XYZ, KKD blasted President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, saying that he had broken a campaign promise to take action on galamsey, meaning illegal mining.
“Things that you were supposed to do to break the eight, if you would have done it, there wouldn’t be any need for a campaign. Because of Galamsey, you bet with your presidency. You people should play the time that the president said that he would put his president on a bet to fight Galamsey for me. Who are you deceiving here?” he said.
He argued that the government’s promises were no longer trustworthy after the president failed to follow through on this crucial subject. “The person who coined ‘breaking the 8’ doesn’t have sense; you people should mention the name for me, the person doesn’t have sense, we have book sense and common sense.”
“Imagine you married a wife, and during the marriage, you couldn’t buy anything for your wife, she has become dirty, and all her clothes are torn, your children, you didn’t take care of them… You couldn’t take those who were sick to the hospital, and all of a sudden then you want to leave, then a different person comes to marry her…then you realise that that is the time you want to do good to her… fool, why didn’t you do those things initially?” he added.
