The Upper East Regional Research and Electoral Officer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has blamed the party’s poor showing in the region in the just ended presidential and parliamentary elections on national issues.
Speaking in an interview on Breakfast Today on Dreamz FM, Daniel Ziba said the general economic situation that has brought hardships on Ghanaians influenced the overwhelming rejection of the governing party in both the presidential and parliamentary elections especially in the region.
Ahead of the 2024 polls, the NPP had a seat in Parliament from the Upper East Region and was hopeful of retaining it and winning more seats.
However, the party lost the Binduri seat it is currently holding and failed to win any seat as the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) swept all the parliamentary seats in the region.
It also lost the presidential election in all the region’s 15 constituencies.
Daniel Ziba stated that although the NPP presented candidates most of whom were popular and posed significant threats to the chances of their NDC’s contenders, the general economic difficulties blamed on the party and its government thwarted their successes in the elections.
“If an NDC candidate is getting like say 50 or 54 percent or 56 percent against our candidate over 40 percent, it should tell you that had it not been the difficulties that Ghanaians were just trying to give the parliamentary endorsement to them, we could have taken them,” he stated.
Daniel Ziba pointed out the Pusiga, Tempane and Builsa North as some of the seats the NPP was on course to winning but for the bread-and-butter issues.
He is, however, confident that the party will reorganize and return stronger in the next polls.
“We have to make the party live as an organ so that we can restrategize and come back stronger in 2028 if God gives life”.
