Divine Agorhum has indicated that the NPP aims to secure 56% of the votes in the Greater Accra region during the upcoming elections in 2024.
The New Patriotic Party aims to achieve 56% of the votes in the Greater Accra region during the upcoming 2024 elections. In a discussion with Asaase News, Divine Agorhum, the regional chairman for Greater Accra, expressed this objective.
Our target for the presidential, you will agree with me, is quite a difficult region; we all understand that one, using the cosmopolitan nature of the region, so we are looking at getting 56% of the popular votes as the presidential target.
The Greater Accra region has historically played a crucial role in determining the occupant of the Jubilee House. However, the narrative shifted in 2020 when the New Patriotic Party did not secure the Greater Accra Region yet still emerged victorious in the presidential election.
There were some mistakes that we made that resulted in us losing some of the seats that were traditionally our seats. We shouldn’t have lost Okaikoi North if we had not declared the election day a holiday.”
You know most of those traders at the Abeka Lapaz stretch; they are all our people. On the holiday, they did not come to work because they registered to vote around the area, so no work meant they were not coming and that affected us also in Ablekuma Central, Tema East, and some other constituencies.
At present, we are focusing on approximately nine constituencies that, with diligent effort, we should be able to secure from the NDC.
Again, out of our 14, we have one or two of them. We need to tighten our grip on those constituencies; otherwise, the NDC might end up snatching them from us. For purposes of strategy, I will beg that I keep that to my chest.
At the end of the exercise, NPP will beat NDC here in the Greater Accra region- that I am sure of.
From what we have seen and what we are doing, it is the economy that kind of impacted us negatively a little, but now you can see that we have turned the corner, and things are getting better.
