Member of Parliament for Okaikwei Central, Patrick Yaw Boamah, has admitted that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) could have performed better in the 2024 general elections if the leadership had paid closer attention to the concerns of the Ghanaian people.
Reflecting on the party's performance over recent electoral cycles in an interview with Bernard Avle on Channel One TV's The Point of View on Monday June 23, the MP highlighted a noticeable decline in support. "The 2024 election was a different election across the country," Boamah said. "We had won the 2016 election with a margin of about a million votes and about 169 constituencies.
Fast forward to 2020, we won the election with over 500,000 votes and 137 seats plus an independent seat." He suggested that these results were a warning sign that the party failed to adequately address. "I believe God was talking to the NPP at the time, and we should have listened to the good people of this country and put in place the right measures and policies to make the people happy," he remarked.
Boamah pointed to the growing discontent in key NPP strongholds as a sign of the public's dissatisfaction. "Ashanti Region was grumbling, Eastern Region was grumbling, Greater Accra - there were issues that we should have listened to," he noted. "Party folks were calling for reshuffles.
