Mussa Dankwa reveals top 3 reasons why the NPP lost 2024 election

Ken Ofori-Atta and Akufo-Addo

Executive Director and Head of Global Research at Global InfoAnalytics, Mussa Dankwa has revealed three reasons why the NPP lost the 2024 elections.

The then-ruling party lost both the presidential and parliamentary elections by a landslide, with the party losing over 40 seats in the parliamentary election, including several traditional seats it had never lost.

Speaking on Peace FM Monday morning, Mussa Dankwa revealed three top reasons why the NPP suffered such a massive defeat.

Former President Nana Akufo-Addo had the biggest blame, as Dankwa revealed 80% of Ghanaian voters blame the former President for the NPP's defeat, for the way he managed affairs in the past three years.

"About 80% of voters blamed Nana Addo for NPP's loss. That is quite huge," Mussa Dankwa said.

The second reason for the defeat, Mussa Dankwa disclosed, was the unpopularity of President Akufo-Addo, which he said, affected Dr. Bawumia, by association.

"Secondly Bawumia, not for his performance, but his ties with Nana Addo. He could not distance himself from Nana Addo," Mussa Dankwa said.

He added that Bawumia tried to distance himself from the President in a way, but many Ghanaians were not convinced.

"If you remember, he was trying to move away from Nana Addo a bit. That would have helped if people had believed him, but they didn't buy into that."

The third reason Mussa Dankwa gave for the NPP's defeat was the ‘Ken Ofori-Atta factor’.

He said the former Finance Minister became so unpopular that many Ghanaians, including a number of NPP members of parliament and senior party officials, openly called on President Akufo-Addo to remove him, but the President declined, until during the latter stages of his government.

On Bawumia as a person, Mussa Dankwa said he did not rank among the top reasons the party lost, as he put him at the 4th tier of reasons.

He also revealed that e-levy was one of the biggest and most unpopular decisions by the Akufo-Addo government, which contributed significantly to the NPP's defeat as soon as the bill was passed.

Ahead of the elections, polls by Global InfoAnalytics had predicted a heavy defeat for the New Patriotic Party citing very same reasons among others, however party officials and supporters rejected the predictions, with some framing it as unscientific.