Former New Patriotic Party (NPP) General Secretary, John Boadu, has asserted that the over 2 million Ghanaians who did not vote in the 2024 general election deserve to be praised.
According to him, the persons who decided not to vote were unhappy with the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government, and their votes would have gone against the NPP.
He added that the NPP could have gotten about 20% in the presidential election had those persons gone out to vote.
“We are even lucky that about 2.7 million people did not vote because they might have voted against us. Because the people were very angry, and that was why they didn’t want to vote.
“So, it is good they did not come to vote. We thank them. We praise them; they have done very well. Because considering why they chose not to vote, if they did and it was against us, we would have even gotten 20%,” he said in a viral video clip of a recent interview on OTEC FM.
He added, “So, it was good they did not come to vote. Now, we have to look for the reason why they did not vote and work on it.”
The former NPP general secretary also said that his party lost the 2024 election because it allowed government appointees to contest sitting Members of Parliament during its primaries.
He said that MPs who lost the primaries decided not to throw their weights behind the party, which greatly affected its fortunes.
According to updated results of the 2024 presidential election shared by the Electoral Commission of Ghana, the winner of the election, President John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), secured 6,591,790 votes, representing 56.42% of valid votes cast.
Former Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) came in second with 4,877,611 votes, accounting for 41.75%.
Independent candidate, Nana Kwame Bediako, placed third with 88,944 votes (0.76%), followed by Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen, another independent candidate, with 32,457 votes (0.28%).
