In a strong rebuttal to claims that the low voter turnout in the 2024 presidential elections was responsible for John Mahama’s victory, University of Ghana Political Science lecturer, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has called such claims “nonsensical” and a misguided attempt to cover up the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) failure.
During an appearance on TV3’s Key Points program on Saturday, December 28, Professor Gyampo expressed his frustration with the narrative being pushed by some NPP figures.
“The idea that John Mahama won the 2024 elections because people did not go out to vote in my view is a nonsensical propagandistic attempt at covering up for incompetence and bad governance,” he said, dismissing the theory as a deflection from the real reasons behind the party’s defeat.
The political analyst was adamant that simply blaming voter apathy without questioning why people did not show up at the polls was disingenuous.
“If you say that people did not go out to vote without interrogating why they did not go out to vote, then it means that you’re just being propagandistic and you are trying to mask your bad governance and incompetence,” he continued.
Professor Gyampo argued that the reasons behind the low voter turnout were far more significant than simple apathy.
He highlighted a range of issues, including corruption, economic mismanagement, arrogance, and nepotism, which he believed had led to public disenchantment with the NPP government.
“People didn’t vote because they felt let down, because of corruption, arrogance, economic mismanagement, nepotistic governance,” he explained.
The lecturer’s comments came in response to reports that the NPP had formed a committee to investigate why the party lost the election.
He questioned the need for such an inquiry, suggesting that the reasons were already abundantly clear. “If they know apathy caused it why are they setting up a committee to go into the reason why you lost?” Gyampo asked rhetorically. “Come to us, we will tell you all the factors that led to the monumental defeat of the NPP.”
