The Ashanti Regional office of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will soon initiate processes to probe the party’s abysmal performance in the December 7, 2024, general election in the region.
Bernard Antwi Boasiako, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP, told a press conference in Kumasi that the leadership would set up a committee to investigate the defeat.
“There is the need for introspection. We are going to engage all stakeholders, particularly within the Ashanti Region, to identify the causes of the party’s poor performance,” he said.
“If it is time to cry and you don’t cry, people will talk about it. And if it is time to laugh and you don’t laugh, people will talk about it, so God knows why He created crying and laughing.”
Mr. Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, admitted the party’s struggles in the elections and acknowledged that things did not go as expected.
“It didn’t go well for us,” he noted.
The NPP’s regional leadership plans to convene a meeting with all executives, Members of Parliament, parliamentary candidates, municipal and district chief executives, constituency executives, and regional council members to investigate what went wrong. The findings will be shared with the public.
He assured supporters that the Party was focusing on recovery efforts to bounce back so that Ghana and Asanteman could thrive again.
The NPP suffered a humiliating defeat in the Ashanti Region, which is considered the party’s stronghold, in both the presidential and parliamentary elections.
The party managed to obtain 1,366,800 votes, representing 63.9 percent of the 2,106,108 valid votes cast.
Additionally, it lost four constituencies to the National Democratic Congress (NDC), increasing the NDC’s seats in the region to eight.
The new seats won by the NDC are Obuasi East, Adansi Asokwa, Adansi Akrofuom, and Ahafo Ano South West. The NPP, however, retained its seats in Ejura-Sekyeredumasi, Asawase, Sekyere Afram Plains, and New Edubiase constituencies.
During the campaign, the NPP had targeted securing between 75 and 85 percent of the 3,019,178 expected votes in the Ashanti Region, but this goal was not realized.
The leadership is struggling to come to terms with the humiliating defeat, which has left the region in a state of silence since Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the Party’s Flagbearer, conceded defeat on Sunday morning.
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