, a former national chairman of the (NPP), has stated that COVID-19 and the Russian-Ukraine war should be partly blamed for the NPP's defeat in the just-ended 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections.
According to him, the international pandemic and the war orchestrated hardships for all countries, including Ghanaian society, but voters mistook the impact of the pandemic on the economy as mismanagement and voted against the government.
Speaking in an interview on Oyerepa TV on December 15, 2024, , who doubles as the Chairman of the Board of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), added that even though the pandemic played a factor, Ghanaians also had their own concerns. "Definitely, COVID-19 and the Russian-Ukraine war impacted the economy, and as I said, particularly COVID was a big factor that people have ignored.
The Ukraine and Russian wars also played a part in the crises that have visited the whole world in terms of petroleum prices to the extent that it has impacted our cedi, dollar, and exchange rate, and people have exploited it and made it look like it was mismanagement. "And it was because we were involved in, particularly our presidential candidate was involved in telling lies and so forth,...
