The Director of Communications for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Ahiagbah, has announced that the party aims to achieve an ambitious goal of securing between 300,000 and 500,000 votes in the upcoming 2024 presidential election.
This target signifies a threefold to fivefold increase in voter support when compared to the party’s results in the 2020 election. During a press conference titled “Abuse Of The Electoral Loyalty Of The Volta Region” held on Wednesday, October 30, 2024, at the New Patriotic Party Regional Headquarters in Ho, Mr. Ahiagbah underscored the party’s dedication to broadening its appeal throughout the nation.
Our expectation is clear: the NPP is targeting between 300,000 and 500,000 votes in the 2024 presidential election.
This is more than just a numerical target. It represents our conviction that the message we bring focused on economic empowerment, infrastructure, and sustainable development is resonating with Ghanaians.
This will help break the NDC’s unproductive and abusive stranglehold on the Volta Region and turn it into a battleground where the NPP and the NDC compete for votes based on programs and policies that uplift the people.
He believes that it is feasible to transform the Volta Region into a battleground.
It is not going to be business as usual for the NDC. The usual deception, misrepresentation of inflaming sectional differences, and the invocation of former President Rawlings as a son of Volta to derive votes. This will no longer work for the NDC.
I expect the NDC to ridicule this battleground idea, but it would be foolhardy. The change in voter behavior started with the 2020 general elections when the NPP won the Hohoe seat for the first time, improved its showing in Ketu North, and obtained 14.1 percent of the presidential votes.
He stated that the Volta Region is undergoing an electoral revival driven by its middle class and youth, further noting that.
Like the youth across the country, the youth of this region have embraced Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia’s fourth industrial-era programs and policies, which are designed to put the Ghanaian youth on the frontier of global competition for jobs, education, and business opportunities.
The evidence of the renaissance became manifest with the warm welcome accorded to H.E. Dr Mahadu Bawumia, the NPP presidential candidate, during his recent tour of the region. The NDC is confused. They can’t understand what is happening in the Volta Region, which is shocking. However, as a Voltarian, I am not surprised because I believe the Volta Region will someday become a competitive electoral market.
The NPP’s proposal for the Volta Region was characterized as an electoral collaboration aimed at fostering development within the Region. In light of this, he urged the people of Volta to back the NPP in securing victory in the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections, thereby enabling the implementation of its ambitious strategies for job creation and business growth.
The outcome for the Volta Region in this proposition is accelerated regional development. The considerable investment of the Akufo-Bawumia Administration in the region is a herald of mammoth growth when Dr. Bawumia becomes President.
