Election 2024 Defeat: It was a big blow; I was shocked—Annoh-Dompreh

Minority Chief Whip, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, has explained that the 2024 defeat of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was too much of a blow for us.

He says the party did not see the kind of defeat they suffered coming to them in the 2024 elections.

Annoh Dompreh noted that the people of Ghana were just angry with the governing NPP at the time and had to punish the political party.

To him, the margin of win left him in a state of shock because it was unexpected.

“It was a big shock; we never saw it coming. If there is anyone in our party who says this was seen ahead of time well…Past questions are always easy. In the aftermath of it, everybody can say anything.

We were all confident that even if we were going to lose, it is going to be by a thin skin. This was tough; it was too much of a blow for us. I think Ghanaians got angry with us and they punished us for it. We never thought the depth of anger was that deep. In my stronghold, close to about 30,000 people in my stronghold did not turn out to vote, that is why I was struggling,” he said.

“It is a mixed feeling. They are telling us there was a hardship, the economy was not in good shape, and when the economy was picking up, we had to go for elections. I am humbled, and it is a decision we have to accept. Once upon a time, they gave us a marginal difference of 1 million votes to His Excellency Akufo-Addo, which in recent times nobody had garnered that.

So if they have given you one million in one breath and they are saying that this time based on what has happened, you need to go home and do your homework well, I think we should accept it in good stride. We have no alternative; the power that we yield flows from the people and the people are custodians of the real power, so if they say you can no longer be there you have to bow out,” he stated on Starr FM in an interview.