Opinions of Friday, 19 December 2025

Columnist: Prosper Nartey

Taking Bryan Acheampong to the cleaners and dismantling propaganda against Bawumia

Bryan Acheampong alludes that Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is the first NPP candidate not to win any constituency in more than 5 regions as NPP Flagbearer since 1996, so he should be changed.

This monotonous and weak argument from you (Bryan Acheampong) shows how lazy your research team is. As a student of electoral and political history,it will be a disservice to Herodotus, father of history, if I don't use this opportunity to educate your ignorance on our political history

Measuring the 3 candidates' performance based on the current regional breakdown of 16 in Ghana to have fair and unbiased geographical performance analyses per your weak premise:

Kufuor couldn't win any constituency in 8 regions when he was our candidate in 1996, yet the party presented him again and won the 2000 election for us. The most marketed Akufo-Addo in 2012 couldn't win any constituency in 6 regions but was reelected as our Flagbearer and won us the 2016 election.

Again, you, Bryan Acheampong, make a loose argument that Dr. Bawumia is the first candidate to have been outperformed by our PCs in any election. Sit down and learn before you go for an interview.

If you care to learn:

In 2004, Kufuor won 127 constituencies out of 230, while w won 128 seats in Parliament out of 227 seats.

In 2008, Akufo-Addo won 97 constituencies out of 230, while the Party won 107 parliamentary seats.

In 2012, Akufo-Addo won 116 constituencies while the Party won 123 seats.

In 2016, Akufo-Addo won 152 constituenies, while the Party won 169 seats.

Did this mean the people didn't believe in our presidential candidates then?