Adopt NDC’s post-2016 strategy to address 2024 election defeat – NPP told

Political Analyst Dr. Jonathan Asante Okyere has suggested that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) should adopt the National Democratic Congress (NDC)'s 2016 defeat to address its 2024 election defeat.

Prof. Kwasi Botchway’s research team published a report in 2017 titled 'Listening to the Voice of the grassroots'. According to the report, NDC’s weak research base caused its defeat in 2016.

The report recommended that the NDC needed steps to crowd the party with critical thinkers to make the party better.

Speaking on Starr Today with Tutuwaa Danso, the political analyst emphasized the importance of gathering data and understanding the reasons behind their electoral loss.

“While you may want to protect your political career by suggesting among the NPP that A, B, C, and D might have gone wrong, that is the more reason why they got defeated.”

Jonathan Asante advised that the NPP should follow the NDC’s approach, which involved Professor Kwasi Botchwey's committee travelling across the nation to collect data, saying, "They should go the approach of the NDC, while they set up the Professor Botchwey’s committee. That went round throughout the nation, gathering information and data as to the cause of the defeat that they suffered in 2016. Come 2020, they are able to have the defeat that they suffered in 2016, creating a huge parliament. And today, they have an unprecedented victory. And so, that is the best way to go.”

He pointed out that one cause of the NPP’s defeat is due to multiple internal elections, which created animosity within the party.

“Every level of election creates some kind of animosity, within and without. Therefore, you are building up different animosities,” he noted.

He suggested that the NPP should have allowed all interested candidates to contest without unnecessary reviews, which might have prevented key members from leaving the party.

“I’m very sure if they had not done that particular review some years back, and they had gone ahead with those who said they are interested, they want to contest, let them contest. And then whoever emerges, emerges,” he said.

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