Key media houses were not on our side, over 2.1 million people did not vote – Bawumia laments disappointing defeat

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  • Eric 12 months ago

    And who said that those who did not vote were going to vote for you

  • The reason why thief John Kumah died like a pig at Suhum Junction instead of Napo's oven nose 12 months ago

    Kwasea Bawumia. Which Ghanaian do you think will vote for a rat like you? Who ? Wontumi? Your farting friend? Foolish man. Shut your stupid mouth you this Akyem hired conservancy labourer

  • Unpredictable Oye Onye Kwasi Atta 12 months ago

    NPP key media stations deviated foolishly. They used their precious insulting everyone deemed opposition instead of defending your course as well as spreading the ingredients stated therein in your manifesto. They did not lea ...
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  • FRANKIE 12 months ago

    Bawumia is a certified fool still living in denial.

  • Kwaku Tee 12 months ago

    @ FRANKIE
    If Ayigbes/ Ewes were blessed by the Almighty to have a Single Individual like Dr Mahamudu Bawumia like their tribe will not be struggling in Togo & Benin.These ungrateful Ewe Refugees in Ghana still don't know th ...
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  • Mabel 12 months ago

    Imbecile and stupid kwaku tee. You have Bawumia and you are suffering. Are you normal?

  • Not a Clever Bunch Nana Addo's NPP is 12 months ago

    I mean these folks aren't clever are they? Are they gaslighting themselves are they are really this dumb? If they so dumb then what does that say about us who voted them to rule for 8 long years?

  • FIELD MARSHALL 12 months ago

    STUPID MAN... A GENUINE LEADER WILL ACCEPT DEFEAT AND CORRECT THE WRONGS.... STOP MAKING EXCUSES BECAUSE ALL THE REASONS YOU ARE GIVING ARE NONSENSE.... I THOUGHT THE BIG DEFEAT WILL HUMBLE YOU BUT YOU ARE STILL THE STUPID OL ...
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  • Kojo Menkah, Bremen. Germany 12 months ago

    Your post really defined who people should take you for no wonder with all your insults you got 41 percent.

  • REDONDO 12 months ago

    Gyimifuor, kromfuor, bodamfuor @Kwaku Tee... I can feel your MASSIVE PAIN, and I am LAUGHING & REJOICING wildly for that. What it means is that, the NDC did not only whip your ass out of power, but they inflicted THE HEAVIEST ...
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  • akan must go, am Akan 12 months ago

    I am Ashanti but i hate akans, we have brought ghana to its knees.

  • Clanlord 12 months ago

    This is the truth, qell done bro

  • You don't deserve Many Words Wasted On You So...... 12 months ago

    MUMU

  • DotCom 12 months ago

    @Kwaku Tee:
    If you don’t look for help, your mental illness will get worse. Every single comment of yours goes to insult another ethnic group. If your ethnic people think like you do, then they are the most backward people ...
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  • Simple Question. 12 months ago

    @ Kwaku Tee. Does the Ewes in Volta Region occupy an Akan Land? Let us show respect and appreciation for our diversity.

  • Bawuliar 12 months ago

    God show you mercy

  • SAEED OSMAN 12 months ago

    It is clear NPP will be in opposition for a long time if Bawumia think these are the reasons for their humiliating defeat. I will tell you the reason since you are refusing to acknowledge it.
    GO BACK TO 2016, LISTEN TO WHAT ...
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  • DEEVINITY 12 months ago

    They were dancing on stage to sisi fiaa while the Nation was starving!!!

  • Taami 12 months ago

    Despite their horrendous and dismal performance in the last 8 years, it seems that the NPP, inspite of all their rigging efforts, still cannot understand why they lost the last elections. They are now going round blaming ever ...
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  • ABC 12 months ago

    Your observation is spot on. His analysis is flawed. The real reasons for the defeat are very obvious to everyone except for bwumia and his people.

  • Abass 12 months ago

    Eric, even the result from Bawumia's own region (North East) proof that when dead bodies at the cemeteries nationwide vote massively for NPP the party can not win. Bawumia should stop attributing his defeat to those who did n ...
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  • Gh 12 months ago

    Mr Eric,the NPP are people who deceive everyone including they themselves and is why Bawumia could say the rubbish he said. The NDC is going to hold them accountable on behalf of Ghanaians. They are not in touch with reality, ...
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  • Mahama 12 months ago

    Kwasea. You dance on stage finish? Your stomach is full of worms. Aboa bi ba. Have you seen your smoothness level?

  • Kramai 12 months ago

    I agree the ghosts weren’t able to vote this time

  • FIELD MARSHALL 12 months ago

    MASA,, THE BALLOT STUFFING DIDN'T WORK... GO AWAY!!!

  • Mabel 12 months ago

    The NDC has only 20% of the media houses in Ghana. A whopping 80% of Ghanaians media is in the hands of the NPP. No wonder Kwesi Twum, the owner of Multimedia was complaining to Kennedy Agyapong that, the NPP government was n ...
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  • Son of sons 12 months ago

    Bawumia I am sorry but I still think you do not know the reason why you and the NPP failed abysmally in this election. It is economic hardship. You lied to the masses and made them pay for believing your lies. People were dis ...
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  • Opanyinbon 12 months ago

    Hahaha! Massa, better keep quiet than blaming some media houses and Ghanaians. Better shift your blames on your poor economic performance, your president and your clueless communicators. Leave Ghanaians alone from your abysma ...
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  • You are a joke 12 months ago

    Do you need media houses to be in your side or in your pockets to win an election? The people are not fools, even in Ashanti region where you have the useless Wontumi radio and several other paid media, you didn’t do well . ...
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  • Zimbi 12 months ago

    That shameless jackass is still telling lies!

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  • Matete 12 months ago

    You're talking bullshit. You will NEVER win an election.
    It was Alan,s turn. But you were smuggled in by Akufo Addo to cover his back. GHANAIANS HAVE EXPOSED YOU BIG TIME. PREPARE BECAUSE YOU HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS TO ANSW ...
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  • Pee 12 months ago

    My friend stop the excuses. Ghanaians rejected you, they said you are corrupt and incompetent, that’s all. Stop giving excuses. There were a lot of NDC voters who didn’t go to the polls to vote too

  • NAPO 12 months ago

    I am wondering why NPP always, saying their supporters didn't go out to vote. Who told them it was their supporters and they were going to vote for them. I am NDC, but I didn't vote. Instead of going back to the drawing table ...
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  • Kwesi 12 months ago

    This should tell you that you are a bad researcher as a PhD holder

  • Obed 12 months ago

    The lamentations of a failed driver mate.

  • Code 9 12 months ago

    NPP think we the AKANS are fools, those Days of NPP/AKAN is long gone

  • Nii Odapagyan 12 months ago

    Masa, that is the real bite for you. Who told you the turnout has been that much? Thieves! Your ghosts were not allowed to vote. I was even expecting you to get 39%.

  • DEEVINITY 12 months ago

    @Nii...He will eventually poll 38% when the final results are announced. If Jezebel Mensah has the decency to announce them. Mark it.

  • ANO 12 months ago

    MANY NURSES WHO MAY HAVE VOTED FOR YOU AFTER BENEFITTING FROM YOUR GOVT FLED THE COUNTRY IN THE POST COVID PERIOD FOR GREENER PASTURES
    MANY GHANAIANS HAVE LEFT

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  • Pink Sheet 12 months ago

    This goat called Bawumia should be pelted with urine. He is mad

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  • Chris 12 months ago

    True. As usual, some people didn't vote. Security was good, hence ballots couldn't be stuffed.

  • Eden 12 months ago

    I still don’t understand why this man always try to throw dust into our eyes ahhh too much lies can’t you see Ghanaians are wise now

  • Erik 12 months ago

    What make you think all 2.1 million people who didn't vote were npp supporters ? In any case if your supporters didn't vote it's because they have lost faith in you. How can any sensible person vote for a lair. Apart from bu ...
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  • K. Kusi 12 months ago

    The 2.1 million votes were the number of stuffed ballot papers they planned to put into the system but could not succeed. Otherwise, he will not be thinking all those votes would have gone to them. Remember they kept on sayin ...
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  • Segoa 12 months ago

    I didn't vote for you as i did in 2016 because of your useless haircut to my aged father, wicked npp. We will continue to vote for parties that has the interest of the people

  • Sammy 12 months ago

    You are not blaming yourself for the lies you told us prior to 2016

  • Kojo Menkah, Bremen. Germany 12 months ago

    More than 80 percent of the media is npp media house who else were you thinking of. Read ghana Web for example, it is appaling and irritating yet readers endured it. So don't tell us the media wasn't on your side.

  • Wakkuffo Waddo 12 months ago

    I even forgot he is still the vice president of Ghana.
    Bawumia has still lost touch with the people.
    He doesn't care about our suffering.
    All he cares about is 2.1 M people didn't vote.
    Kwasia man. We will campaign be ...
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  • Baba Kankani 12 months ago

    Did you expect the supposed key media houses to be on your side with all the abuse of office, nepotism, tribalism and arrogance that were being displayed? Thieves. F.ck off and go bench yourself somewhere. You can go back to ...
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  • Bawumia 12 months ago

    So you know the npp people across ghana hmmmm
    U still not learning
    E levy still dey worry you people

  • Kwame 12 months ago

    The simple reason is that people where pained but kept it for themselves for these 8 yrs. All my investment during NDC time was crashed by your government. I invested in GoldCoast securities, Legacy financial services and IGS ...
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  • world 12 months ago

    Bawumiah dont worry everything God/Allah makes it happen has a course and its ending world is watching closely and will come back to my words to you.

  • Asumasi 12 months ago

    Say everything under the sun, than tell themselves the truth. You were so BAD that even your own media COULDN'T defend you.

  • Ghana Money. 12 months ago

    This guy is still not accepting the fact party lost because of his lies and incompetence in managing the economy.

  • Yes 12 months ago

    The answer is simple. We, the NPP members, did not vote because of looting, galamsey, corruption, arrogance, unemployment, and economic crisis; NAPO as vice was scary, and the continuation of stealing under you was a concern. ...
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  • GOD IS GOOD 12 months ago

    SO,SO BLAME GAME.HOW WOULD YOU EXPECT THE MEDIA TO SUPPORT YOUR POOR PERFORMANCE?? WHEN THE PEOPLE ARE CRYING AND COMPLAINING ABOUT HIGH COST OF LIVING AND THE CONTINIOUS PRICE INCREASE OF PETROL, YOU ARE GOING ROUND TALKING ...
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  • May 12 months ago

    Excellent. If the 2.1 million had voted you would have had 29.4%

  • Zargon 12 months ago

    The question is whyyyyyyyyy? What do you greedy, corrupt people do?

  • Sarfo Bediako 12 months ago

    The following are what actualy led to Bawumia's defeat:

    1. the economic hardship
    2. your rigging plan that was thwarted due to extra vigilance of NDC.
    3. Wontumi and NAPA
    4. NPP's disregard for Ashanti region developmen ...
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  • Dr who 12 months ago

    Over 10million Ghanaians did not vote. The winner has just over 5millon so you don't need research to tell your party that people just wanted change. Even if your 2.1 million voted for you you will still cone short of victory

  • Jkmee 12 months ago

    Do you think the 2.1millions would have voted for you. Your defeat would have been worse

  • Yes 12 months ago

    You are too soft. You allowed Ken, finance minister to bring you down. You had good plans for Ghana but did not get the chance. You have all the qualities, but you must step up. Try to be firm or strong to lead. You always co ...
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  • DEEVINITY 12 months ago

    Complete and utter HOGWASH. Better hide under a rock and shut the fcuk up.

  • AsMa 12 months ago

    Ur own ppl come talk say from February wai dem see say u ppl loose de election now to u come dey talk something else so who dey talk truth. Masa after election no campaign go rest

  • This LIAR is still Talking???? Really???? 12 months ago

    Shut up IMMEDIATELY.

  • Frank Talk 12 months ago

    Keep on pointing to the wrong direction, keep on blaming mrdia houses for not being on your side, your next defeat will annihilate your party. The media houses who were not singing the master's voice were saying the truth, ...
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  • Democrats party did same to Trump in 2020 and Trump came stronger.Belief in Jesus 12 months ago

    Don’t worry sir just belief in Jesus and you will win against these demonic democrats party. Without Jesus it would be hard to fight NDC AKA the Evil party in Ghana, You would be the next president. This election was yours ...
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  • Anasco 12 months ago

    I don't see that but rather their ballot stuffing didn't work

  • Yakubu 12 months ago

    Yes the ballot stuffing was thwarted the reason why u lost. Shut up and find something to sell

  • TeeeeY 12 months ago

    #StopGalamsey# The media did not take your bribes which will be exhausted in a week. Please there is a national agenda to be prosecuted the make citizens happy and confident.# StopGalamsey#

  • Haf 12 months ago

    I'm not hear to tell you things that caused your defeat. But to let you know that you got it all wrong, thinking that all those who did not vote would have voted for you. They are not PARTY SUPPORTERS rather

    # bloated regi ...
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  • Yakubu 12 months ago

    Stupid man, how sure are u that all those people would have voted for u. Shut up looser

  • Alex 12 months ago

    This is why you lost, you have never been truthful to yourself.With this attitude you wont ever win any election publicly in Ghana except the arm twisting ones

  • Sul 12 months ago

    AND WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT 2. WHATEVER MILLIONS OF THE VOTERS WHO DIDN'T VOTE WERE GOING TO VOTE FOR YOU

  • Mimi 12 months ago

    Someone should tell this man he gained my respect on Dec 8th for consealing defeat and should not allow those around make him to be talking loose and cheap. The ballot staffing they did why didn't that make him win? The NPP a ...
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  • Stone 12 months ago

    Bawumia you are a PhD holder stop the nonsense. With the deplorable economic situation why would your own supporters vote when they are suffering under your government with taxes upon taxes? $1=17ghc. Horrible Shs system, wa ...
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  • Haf 12 months ago

    I'm not here to tell you things that caused your defeat. But to let you know that you got it all wrong, thinking that all those who did not vote would have voted for you. They are not PARTY SUPPORTERS rather

    # bloated regi ...
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  • Donatus 12 months ago

    Complete nonsense was it not your wontumi media house that gave them.

  • Vivian 12 months ago

    Orga rest

  • Kwam 12 months ago

    Hmm don't believe in the story that your people didn't vote, they just don't have the hope the you can change their lives in a positive way. They also suffered from your bad harsh economic policies.

  • Daniel 12 months ago

    The reason for the low turnout that led to your defeat is very simple. The economy was not managed well especially after covid. People were not economically ok and that led to your loss.

  • BOY KOFI 12 months ago

    Bawumia is dreaming,somebody should tell him to wake up.
    I think Mr Bawumia expected to get over 6 million votes just like Mahama did in 2020.
    He doesn't understand why he got only about 4 million votes.
    Let somebody tell ...
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  • NAKA 12 months ago

    Dr. Bawumia’s defeat in the 2024 elections underscores a multifaceted failure, with his candidacy at the heart of the problem. While his policies were largely well-received and his message resonated with Ghana’s economic ...
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  • BOY KOFI 12 months ago

    Please check the data from 1992,no party has been able to break the 8 years tenure.
    Bawumia is not Hercules or Samson to "break the mystical 8".
    NPP members know very well that they can't break the 8 so it's unnecessary to ...
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  • NAKA 12 months ago

    While it’s true that no party has broken the 8-year cycle since 1992, the NPP’s failure in 2024 cannot be blamed solely on historical trends. Leadership choices, campaign strategy, and internal party unity all played sign ...
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  • Yeboah 12 months ago

    You don't even know we have 276 constituencies?

  • Akuraseni 12 months ago

    The Ashanti King is also part of the reasons the Ashantis did not vote for NPP party. How can you entertained a NDC PARTY that always insult your people,.He had the chance to stop these nonsense by the NDC PARTY members by t ...
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  • FOYOOSIS 12 months ago

    Having been knocked out convincingly, this man, Bawuliar is still telling lies to his followers as if they are fools.

    Are his communication experts also foolish as he is?

  • Duncan 12 months ago

    Massa, you have lost the elections. Stop giving petty excuses and see how you can organize and come back stronger. These lame excuses are not spot on

  • Love for ken s deep. 12 months ago

    Peace fm,Joy FM ,wontumi tv/radio,net 2, kojo Sheldon and others. Pls don't be greedy

  • Dan 12 months ago

    This guy is so dumb and he wanted to be our president how can such a dumb person be my president tweaa

  • Kay 12 months ago

    I am Npp but I voted against u because of ur wicked policies such as the e-levy and betting tax . Very wicked people .Never again Npp.u didn’t give me any job yet I struggle on my own ,buy my data and spend time to arrange ...
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  • Moshean 12 months ago

    Bawumia, you were part of the looting club!!! No Ghanaian will forgive you and the Akyem Mafia for what you and your NPP party has done to our beloved country.
    God almighty should grant you more years to see how Ghana will ...
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  • KK 12 months ago

    Ghost names did not vote

  • Kutsii 12 months ago

    You go explain taya. Damn foolish comedien vice President. A whole Alhaji dancing azonto and sisi fiat on stage. What do u expect after your foolish comedy on stage .and your disrespect to President Mahama. You're finished ...
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  • What a stupid delusional being Bawumia 12 months ago

    This man is still shameless thinking that something went wrong. That there was evidence of NPP winning ahead of the polls? Please bring him back to earth to face the realities on the ground. Who at all are misinforming him. c ...
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  • Boldsteven Mother Serpent of Corruption 12 months ago

    Bawuliar continue to deceive and tickle yourself. How do you know the 2.1m people who did not vote will vote for you. You run away from the economy thinking it has nothing to do with the living conditions of people. Kwadwo Op ...
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  • James 12 months ago

    Bawumia clearly has not yet learned anything from this election. How can you hold NDC votes constant and suggest that those who didn't vote all belong to the NPP. Absolute nonsense. You lost massively even in your home region ...
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  • Patriot 12 months ago

    They need to find out why their supporters and others didn't vote for the NPP, but its more important for the party to find out how come they missed, in real time, the pulse of their own supporters stance not to vote. They sh ...
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  • Osei Manu 12 months ago

    The defeat blame game has started in earnest. When you were dancing, and performing rituals at shrines while dishing out money to pastors and leaving Ghanaians to live in abject poverty as your campaign strategy, the media wa ...
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  • Makoto 12 months ago

    Genuine voters voted. The 2 million ghost vote you smuggled into the pooling stations in 2020 is what is missing in 2024.

  • KY 12 months ago

    why would you think that the over 2.1million people who did not vote are your followers. you've sent all your party people to abroad instead of Ghanaian students who qualify to go abroad, and study and you think they will com ...
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  • Bonkers 12 months ago

    Your mother and father were not on our side rather

  • Boune 12 months ago

    Absolute truth. The likes multimedia became the mouthpiece of the opposition. Their morning show was a propaganda medium to paint the government black on daily basis.

  • Landry 12 months ago

    The question is why they didn’t vote. I think it was an intelligent way of giving the power to the NDC government. So Sir don’t complaining because The Noble GH people have spoken. Therefore you have to respect their choi ...
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  • Ola Normann 12 months ago

    Thats a lie. It was not that the people did not vote. They all voted massively. What changed was the fact that the NPP did not get the chance to inflate the ballot boxes in Ashanti and Eastern. They did not get the chance to ...
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  • Greg 12 months ago

    When the E-Gate didn't open that was the time Ghanaians rejected you. If still you don't understand, ask the Jean Mensah EC to go back and conduct another election only for those who didn't vote to come out to vote so you c ...
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  • Koo Boare 12 months ago

    VP Bawumia, you claim the people said they wouldn't vote. What did you do about it. The national security and the other security agencies should have helped.

  • Nana Addo 12 months ago

    THEY SHOULD SUPPORT YOU EVEN WHEN YOU'RE FOOLING AND MESSING THE WHOLE COUNTRY AND WEST AFRICA UP? YOU COULDN'T EVEN DEFEND ISLAM, ENTERING ANY CHURCH AT WILL AND ASKING FOR PRAYER EVERYWHERE. DO YOU KNOW IT IS HARAM TO DO TH ...
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  • alasanbila 12 months ago

    The answer is simple, your Boss Nana Addo was arrogant and you were not supposed to be the party flagbearer but your boss imposed you on us. That is why Npp did not win.

  • Arab 12 months ago

    Four of us in my family didn't vote but we are not NPP but rather NDC so what's he talking about, a lot of people didn't vote because of NPP lies and the other reason was ballot stuffing that the NPP couldn't do like they di ...
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  • Osaman 12 months ago

    This theoretical economist should not be allowed to contest any future elections because his fundamentals are very weak

  • Jim 12 months ago

    People stayed home because they were concerned you were going to continue with the Akkufo-Addo-Bawumia corruption and incompetence that had resulted in the economic hardships they were facing. You were part of the team that b ...
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  • Obroniba 12 months ago

    We the floating voters voted against your thievery blockhead government because the economy was in total shambles, corruption was at its peak, arrogance and insensitivity was extremely high, nuisance taxes, serious unemployme ...
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  • Ex-Pope 12 months ago

    THOSE VOTERS KNEW BETTER THAN TO WASTE THEIR VOTES ON AN INCOMPETENT STEERING WHEEL DANCING CLOWN. YOU'RE A DAMN LIAR, FOR YUOUR NPP RENTED FAKE PPOLLSTER HAD YOU WINNING THE ELECTION, AND NO MENTION WAS MADE ABOUT VOTERS STA ...
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