‘It was as if our people held a meeting across the country and decided they won’t go out to vote’ – Bawumia on NPP’s loss

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the Vice President and presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the 2024 general election, has insisted that the NPP lost the polls as a result of voter apathy.

He says it was because some 2 million supporters of the ruling party failed to turn out to vote on Saturday, December 07, 2024, leading to the party’s most humiliating defeat ever in the Fourth Republic.

At a meeting held at his residence in Accra Monday, December 23, 2024, attended by Chairpersons and Vice of the various committees, as well as members on the committees, Dr. Bawumia wondered how such a whooping number of party supporters failed to turn up to vote.

According to him, in spite of various people working to present such a comprehensive policy to Ghanaians, the party’s fortunes, he noted, was affected by the voter apathy, wondering if they held a meeting and decided to stay home on the election day.

“It was as if our people held a meeting across the country and decided they won’t go out to vote,” Dr. Bawumia said.

Meanwhile, the Vice President expressed gratitude to members of the manifesto sub committees, and commended them for putting together a comprehensive policy document which was presented to Ghanaians for the election.

Despite the outcome of the election, Dr. Bawumia told the committee members he was proud of their work and the transformational policies in the manifesto, which was presented to the people of Ghana for consideration.

The Vice President called for a comprehensive post mortem of why such a huge number of party members refused to vote, assuring that a comprehensive research would be conducted by the party, as part of the reorganisation process for the way forward.

“I want to express sincere gratitude and appreciation to all of you for your dedication and hard work towards putting together such a comprehensive document, which we presented to Ghanaians,” Dr. Bawumia said.

On the 2024 NPP Manifesto, Dr. Bawumia urged members of the various manifesto committees not to feel that it is a wasted effort.

“God willing, we will all benefit from this document in the future,” he assured.

Also present at the meeting was Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, who chaired the Manifesto Committee of the 2024 Bawumia Campaign.

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