Akufo-Addo's defeat in 2016 will be bigger

Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said the NDC has been handed victory on a silver platter in the 2016 Presidential elections following the endorsement of Nana Akufo-Addo as the Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

According to the chief scribe of the governing party, if the analysis by the NPP are anything to go by, then Nana Akufo-Addo will be defeated by a wider margin come 2016.

“If analysis that Nana Addo had defeated Kyeremanteng, first, second and third, and that as he goes forward the defeats are getting bigger and it is annihilation; then by their own logic it means their presidential candidate, who had been defeated several times by the NDC; his defeat will also get bigger in 2016,” Mr. Nketia argued.

NPP analysts say Nana Addo will be third time lucky and that since he, Nana Addo, had been able to beat his rival Alan Kyeremanteng on three different occasions with widening margins, he will be able to defeat President John Mahama in the 2016 elections.

Nana Addo last Saturday polled 117,413 votes or 94.35 per cent of total valid votes cast in the NPP Presidential elections to beat his arch rival Alan Kyeremanteng, who polled 5,905 votes representing 4.74 per cent while Addai Nimoh, on the other hand, garnered a paltry 1,128 votes representing 0.91 per cent of the votes.

But speaking on Peace FM Morning show Kokrokoo yesterday, Mr Nketia, affectionately called General Mosquito, disagrees, saying he is of the view that the widening victories of Nana Addo in the NPP internal elections notwithstanding, will conversely be his bigger defeat in the 2016 national elections.

He juxtaposed his argument with the dwindling votes of Nana Addo in the presidential elections in 2008 and again in 2012.

He further explained that, in the annals of Ghana’s political history, there is no presidential candidate defeated by an incumbent, who has been able to come back to win elections.

The NDC Chief Scribe admitted however that, it doesn’t mean that the scenario can’t ever happen; he is just throwing a caution to Nana Addo that, if that’s his analysis, then he has a herculean task to overcome.

Mr Nketia however refused to divulge strategies the ruling NDC has under its sleeves. “We are not going to talk about our strategy in public; else it’s no more strategy, and you better not campaign at all. Strategies are not made public for opponents to listen”.

He said at the moment, the main pre-occupation of the NDC is to select its regional executives and thereafter, talk about strategies. “Nana Addo’s election is not anything that will panic the NDC, we will defeat him again,” Mr. Nketia stated.