The Ashanti Regional office of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will soon set into motion the processes to probe the party’s abysmal performance in the December 7, 2024, general election in the region.
Mr Bernard Antwi Boasiako, the Ashanti Regional Chairman, NPP, told a press conference in Kumasi that the leadership would set up a committee to investigate the defeat.
“There is the need for introspection. We are going to engage all stakeholders, particularly within the Ashanti Region, to identify the causes of the party’s poor performance,” he said.
“If it is time to cry and you don’t cry, people will talk about it.
And if it is time to laugh and you don’t laugh, people will talk about it, so God knows why He created crying and laughing.”
Mr Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, admitted the party’s struggles in the elections and said it did not work as expected.
“It didn’t go well for us,” he noted.
The NPP’s regional leadership would soon convene a meeting with all executives, members of Parliament, parliamentary candidates, municipal and district chief executives, constituency executives, and regional council members, to investigate what went wrong and share the findings with the public.
He told the supporters that the Party was focusing on recovery to bounce back so that Ghana and Asanteman could thrive again.
The NPP suffered a humiliating defeat in the Ashanti Region, considered to be the pivot of the party, in both the presidential and parliamentary elections.
The party struggled to obtain 1,366,800, representing 63.9 percent of the 2,106, 108 valid votes cast.
Additionally it lost four constituencies to the National Democratic Congress (NDC), making the NDC secure eight constituencies in the region.
The new seats won are Obuasi East, Adansi Asokwa, Adansi Akrofuom and Ahafo Ano South West, while the party maintained its Ejura-Sekyeredumasi, Asawase, Sekyere Afram Plains, and New Edubiase constituency seats.
The NPP had, during the electioneering, targeted to obtain between 75 and 85 per cent of the 3,019,178 votes expected in the Ashanti region, but that did not materialise.
The leadership is struggling to come to terms with the humiliating defeat, which had placed the region in a silent mode since the concession of defeat by Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the Party’s Flagbearer, Sunday morning.
GNA