Akufo-Addo's Votes Against Mahama Will Decrease, NPP Activist Predicts

An activist of the opposition NPP, Baah Achamfour, has predicted that the percentage of votes just elected flag-bearer of the party, Nana Akufo Addo, is likely to obtain in the 2016 elections is between 38-40 percent. Speaking on Muntie (100.1 FM) yesterday morning, the NPP activist expressed displeasure with the vote buying tactics of Nana Akufo-Addo and his henchmen on Saturday which saw the twice-defeated NPP Presidential Candidate elected as the party’s flag-bearer for the 2016 elections. He said while voting was going on, Akufo-Addo’s henchmen were paying delegates GH¢10 each to induce them to vote for Former Foreign Minister of Ghana. He said it is this behavior that results in Akufo-Addo crushing to ignominious defeats in national elections. Baah Achamfour predicted that Akufo Addo’s votes is likely to plunge to an all time low of between 38-40 percent in the 2016 against President Mahama because anytime his percentage goes up in the party’s primaries, his percentage drops in the national election that was to follow. In the 2007 primaries of the party, Akufo Addo obtained 47.96% of votes cast to be elected flag-bearer of the party for the 2008 elections. Come the 2008 elections and he garnered 49.4% of the votes cast which was not enough to win him the elections. The run off ended in his defeat. In 2010, he increased his percentage at the NPP primaries from 47.96 % to 77.92% , got elected subsequently as the flag-bearer of the party but at the national election two years later, saw his votes dropping from the 2008 figure of 49.4% to 47.92%. Obviously, whenever the percentage of votes he obtains increases at the primaries of the party, it decreases at the national level. Thus, according to Baah Achamfour, since Akufo-Addo’s votes has increased at the party’s primaries from 77.92% to 94.7 per cent, then one should expect the percentage of votes he will receive in 2016 against President John Mahama to decrease.