Political parties have zero incentive to perform when they know their support is grounded in ethnicity, strongholds & unflinching voter loyalty – Kofi Abotsi
Published:
2 months ago
Source:
3News
Dean of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) Law School, Professor Kofi Abotsi has stated that identity-based voting is the reason for political non-performance. Where parties know that their support is grounded in ethnicity, strongholds and unflinching voter loyalty, they have zero incentive to perform, he said.
"Voters cannot support poor performance while complaining about it," he wrote on his X platform. Regarding the winner-takes-all regime in Ghana, he called for a second look at the practice. He argued that the winner-takes-all system increases the cost of electoral defeats, a situation that threatens the entire country. The Winner-Takes-All system of politics is one in which all the candidates who do not emerge victorious in an election receive no authorized role in the politico system of the country, irrespective of the number of votes they obtained in the election and the voices of the citizens they represent.