Nana Addo Will Commit A Strategic Mistake If He Centers His Campaign On “All-Die-Be-Die” – Ben Ephson

Renowned pollster and Managing Editor of the Daily Dispatch newspaper, Ben Ephson Jnr., has advised presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for Election 2012, Nana Akufo-Addo to center his campaign message on winning over “floating voters” and not on the party’s die-hard supporters, cautioning that failure to do so will result in the NPP Flagbearer kissing “goodbye to the presidency and politics because he will be seventy two in 2012”.

Speaking in an interview on Gold Paper Review on Radio Gold, Mr. Ephson also warned that Nana Addo will be “committing a strategic mistake” should his “desperation to become president in 2012” compel him to use the “all-die-be-die” comment as one of the central themes in his campaign.

Analyzing Nana Addo’s infamous comment, the election watcher said it will be unwise for leading figures in the NPP to openly voice out support for Nana Addo’s “all-die-be-die”comment. Mr Ephson disclosed that in private conversations with some die-hard NPP MP’s, they acknowledge that the infamous comment was in bad taste; likewise the “many ways of killing a cat” remark by Dr. Kwabena Adjei, National Chairman of the NDC.

“I know many leading NDC members who were against it, but would not come out openly and criticize him,” he added.

Commenting on the statement by Former President Rawlings that if the current administration carries on with things as they are now, the NDC will be an opposition party in 2012, the Daily Dispatch Managing Editor stated that he sides with the AfricaWatch Magazine, that President Mills is not likely to be a one term president quite contrary to the fears of the ex-President.