Dr , the (NPP) Member of Parliament for Effiduase/Asokore and the 2024 Middle Belt Campaign Coordinator for Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has predicted the likely outcome of the 2028 presidential election.

In a Facebook post dated Saturday, April 26, 2025, Dr Afriye asserted that historical trends indicate a familiar opposition candidate will likely triumph over a new candidate from the ruling party, a pattern he believes will hold in the upcoming election. "Any new presidential candidate who emerged on the ticket of a ruling government lost it to the familiar faced opposition presidential candidate," he wrote.

Pointing to past elections to support his claims, Dr Afriye noted that new presidential candidates from ruling parties have consistently lost to well-known opposition figures.

He cited the examples of the late President John Evans Atta Mills, who lost in 2000 as a new face on the ticket of the then-ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to John Agyekum Kufuor of the NPP, who had contested two elections (1996 and 1992) on the ticket of the NPP, and Nana Akufo-Addo, who lost in 2008 as a fresh NPP candidate to Professor Mills who had contested twice on the ticket of the NDC.