We Should’ve Listened To Complaints On Economy—-Michael Osei Boateng Asserts

Former National Youth Organiser aspirant for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Michael Osei Boateng popularly known as “Pope” says the party could’ve avoided the defeat it suffered on December 7, 2024 if it had worked on complaints about the economy.

Speaking on radio, the former aspirant said many people were complaining of skyrocketing food prices and transport fares.

Others, he stated also complained about the astronomical hikes on goods and services.

“I believe the complainst of Ghanaians were legitimate and upon hindsight i believe if we had listened to them and worked on reducing the cost of living the NPP would have fared better in the 2024 general elections”, Mr Boateng stressed.

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Mr Osei Boateng also expressed surprise at the parliamentary results with the NDC winning majority seats of 188 across Ghana 🇬🇭.

He indicated that even the NDC knew the NPP would win majority seats in Parliament.

He therefore wondered how the reverse became the case after polls closed on December 7.

“Even though we knew we could have done better with the Economy, our parliamentary candidates however worked so hard to help secure majority seats but the reverse is the case as the NPP can only boast of 88 seats in the 9th Parliament”, Pope bemoaned.

Panacea:
Mr Osei Boateng said the NPPs electoral defeat could be attributed to many reasons including how it handled its internal elections.

He said having lost the 2008 general elections, the NPP decided to open up its delegates system, but failed to do same after winning the 2017 elections, he added.

Currently, he said the party could stop the monetization of the system by opening the delegates system up to allow all card bearing members to vote and also take decisions for the party during its internal elections.

“I know the Prof Mike Ocquaye review committee is going about its work and are yet to bring its findings but as a stakeholder and member of the NPP i believe we can restructure our delegates system to the point that we can even use same to strategize for national elections since we will know our strengths in polling stations across the country”  Mr Osei Boateng stated.

Story By Michael Ofosu-Afriyie,  Kumasi