Akufo Addo Not Soo Popular Result Shows He made Only 3.5% More Votes Than He Got In 2012

Claims that Nana Akufo Addo, the flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) won the just concluded Presidential elections massively has been debunked following statistical revelation that he only improved his votes by a paltry 3.5% over the votes he realized in 2012.

Akufo Addo swept approximately 5.7 million votes to clock 53.9% of total votes cast against his closest rival, the incumbent President John Dramani Mahama who made approximately 1 million votes less to tally at 44.4% of total votes.

NPP propagandists have gone to town claiming among other that Akufo Addo’s win was “unprecedented” and was “massive”. However, comparing his performance in the 2012 election where he stood on the NPP ticket, it showed that Akufo Addo may not be as popular as his apparatchiks would make the country believ; he only added 188,630 additional votes.

According to analyst Progressive Alliance Media, this shows that the NPP message did not exactly sway more new voters, rather, it was the same core NPP voters that turned up to vote for Akufo Addo. The implications are that the campaign message of Akufo Addo did not resonate well with the bulk of the Ghanaian voters. Also, the perception that he was vindictive and potentially prone to violence worked against him.

“We can conclusively say Nana has not made much gain with his campaign messages. His appeal was still within majority of his core group he appeals to in the past 4years,” the Progressive Alliance Media stated in its analysis of the numbers post elections.

According to the group, the saving grace for Akufo Addo was the fact that the there was an inexplicable voter apathy that worked against the incumbent John Dramani Mahama.

In 2012, President Mahama made 5.4 million votes, but this number dropped to 4.7 million in 2016 to clinch him a 44.4 per cent margin in the overall votes cast at the presidential polls on December 7.

“ The defeat of NDC is largely or likely due to apathy from their own support base. These individuals might have refused to vote for several reasons. The party needs to find out this issues and work at it,” the report stated

“Quite clearly, the NDC should not cry, but rather they must blame themselves for undertaking a poor campaign. Their inability to energize their own base is strange, especially, knowing the defeat of Hillary Clinton was as a result of apathy.”

There are hints that President Mahama may be bracing for a comeback in 2020 on the ticket of the NDC since he is still entitled to one more term. “Constitutionally, John has the chance to go again. The support base is still there. However, Nana performance in the coming 4yrs would determine whether he can erode such a base. If his performance is poor, then the NDC has a brighter chance of annexing power in 2020,” Progressive Alliance Media said.

I have taken step to compare the 2012 & 2016 presidential election between NDC and NPP and to dete rmine what might have gone wrong.
Nana
2012 total votes – 5,248,898
2016 ————— – 5,437,528
Gain. 188,630 votes

John
2012 total votes – 5,574,761
2016 —————– – 4,414,528
Lost. 1,160,514 votes

John has lost 20.82% of individuals who casted their votes for him in 2012 and Nana has gain only 3.5% of new voters from 2012.

We can conclusively say Nana has not made much gain with his campaign messages. His appeal was still within majority of his core group he appeals to in the past 4years.
The defeat of NDC its largely or likely due to apathy from their own support base. This individuals might have refused to vote for several reasons. The party needs to find out this issues and work at it.

Quite clearly, the NDC should not cry, but rather they must blame themselves for undertaking a poor campaign. Their inability to energize their own base is strange, especially, knowing the defeat of Hillary Clinton was as a result of apathy.

Constitutionally, John has the chance to go again. The support base is still there. However, Nana performance in the coming 4yrs would determined whether he can erode such a base.
If his performance is poor, then the NDC has a brighter chance of annexing power in 2020