The Parliamentary Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for Essikado-Ketan Constituency, Charles Onuawonto Bissue, has said the party cannot afford the recurrence of the 2008 electoral defeat in the pending elections. According to him, the NPP's complicency accounted for that lose, given that the margins were relatively lower. At a mini rally held at Takoradi on Saturday, August 17, 2024, Bissue indicated that the NPP lost by some twenty-three thousand votes to the National Democratic Congress (NDC). He explained that the margin represented, on average, a loss of a single vote at each of the polling stations across the country. Impressed by the mammoth crowd at the rally, Charles Bissue charged members and sympathisers of the party to step out in their numbers to campaign and win votes for the party at all levels in the coming elections. "Let's guard against the experiences of the 2008 elections.