Professor Joshua Alabi, Campaign Manager for John Mahama’s 2024 campaign team, has said the lower voter turnout in the Ashanti region was as a result of the work the National Democratic Congress(NDC) did.
Before the 2024 elections, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) whose stronghold is the Ashanti targeted to secure 85% of the votes while the NDC aimed for 32%.
The NDC, however, made massive inroads in the region as it polled 697, 076 votes representing 33% of the 2,106,108 valid votes cast.
The NDC also won four more seats in the Ashanti region, including the Ahafo Ano South East, Adansi Asokwa, Akrofuom and Obuasi East, bringing its total seats to eight.
Speaking on the NDC’s electoral gains, Prof. Alabi in an interview with Accra-based ChannelOne TV said they were focused on strategic campaigning.
He suggested that the NDC’s strategic actions had directly contributed to the reduced voter turnout in the region, which in turn had an impact on the NPP’s losses.
“I must say that yes, to some extent there was some degree of low voter turnout. But I must say that the low turnout in the Ashanti Region was also a result of the work we did. Across the country, there must have been low turnout, but in the Ashanti Region, the percentage we have seen is also due to the work we did,” he noted.
