The Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive in the Greater Accra Region, Yohane Amarh Ashitey, has described as an act of tickling one’s self and laughing, a recent poll that was released by a supposed polling company that claimed that Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, the ruling New Patriotic Party’s presidential candidate for the 2024 elections, will lose.
In response to the claim by the Executive Forum that John Mahama will win the election by some 55 percent, the MCE said the polls are fake.
“No number of fake polls will win the election for John Mahama,” he said, adding, “he and the people he has hired to conjure the lies can imagine and deceive themselves all they want, Ghanaians are wiser than that.”
The reaction is coming in the wake of a publication of a supposed poll outcome by the Executive Forum, that John Mahama will win the election by 55.6% as against Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s 41.4%.
The poll released this week, also claimed that in the worst-case scenario the poll will go for a run-off and Mr. Mahama will gain 35% of the voters who earlier voted for other candidates other than John Mahama and Dr. Bawumia.
“How do you, in the same poll predict a first-round win for one candidate and still go on to predict a run-off win for the same candidate – which is which, a first-round landslide or a run-off?” the Tema MCE asked rhetorically.
According to Yohane Amarh Ashitey, this confusion shows that the poll was nothing but choreographed lies.
“They can lie to themselves all they want but no matter how much they lie, these fake polls will never win the elections for John Mahama,” he added.
On his part, Nene Ofoe Teye-Chu Agbadiagba lV, the Tema East Constituency Chairman of the NPP, accused Mr. John Mahama of paying fake pollsters to spawn lies to make him look good, saying the lie will not prevail.
“We have seen this sort of thing in this same Ghana before – who doesn’t remember that in the lead-up to the 2016 elections, Ben Ephson had forecasted that John Mahama was going to win in the first round?” he asked rhetorically.
“And yet, at the end of it all, President Akufo-Addo routed John Mahama by almost one million votes. That history is what John Mahama and those close to him have set themselves up for by hiring these conjurers.”
Nene Agbadiagba pointed out that the margins stated by the poll alone shows that it is fake.
“No serious analysis of the upcoming elections will forecast that any of the two leading candidates will win by 55% given the tightness of the race,” he dismissed.
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