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National Communications Director of the\u00a0New Patriotic Party\u00a0(NPP), Yaw Buaben Asamoa has said that the eight-year cycle in which power alternates between the two leading parties will not be automatic in the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n
According to him, the 2024 elections will be based on the party that has quality leadership which he says the NPP has in abundance.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Accra-based Joy FM, the former Adentan Member of\u00a0Parliament\u00a0(MP) said that the 2020 flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC),\u00a0John Dramani Mahama, has no solution to economic challenges confronting the country.<\/p>\n
He said the only solution the former president has proffered since he went into opposition has been an IMF bailout programme which according to him, members of the NDC have rejected.<\/p>\n
He maintained the NDC’s defeat in 2016 and 2020 elections were a testament to the party\u2019s inability to win political power.<\/p>\n
Mr. Asamoa stressed that the governing NPP had more quality leadership than their political rivals.<\/p>\n
The lawyer was commenting on a recent EIU report which said the NDC stood a greater chance of winning the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince John Mahama wanted the IMF and his party\u2019s leadership have discredited the IMF, he hasn\u2019t come back to the public to tell us his views, whether or not he is taking us to the IMF or he has other things in mind.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe that he doesn\u2019t have anything more than the IMF to offer the people of Ghana and if the IMF is not the solution, then the eight-year cycle will not be automatic, it will be based on the quality of leadership and that we have in abundance,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
The EIU in its report observed that anti-incumbency factors will cause the NPP to lose the next elections but the NDC, which stands a great chance of winning the polls, should change John Mahama to increase their chances at winning.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe next parliamentary and presidential elections are due in 2024.\u201cUnder constitutionally mandated term limits, the incumbent President Akufo-Addo, cannot run for a third term.The former president, John Mahama, is reportedly considering running again, but we expect the opposition NDC to try to revitalize its prospects with a fresh candidate.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur [EIU] baseline forecast is that ongoing public dissatisfaction with the slow pace of improvements in governance\u2014such as infrastructure development, job creation and easing of corruption\u2014will trigger anti-incumbency factors and push the electorate to seek a change,\u201d the report emphasized.<\/p>\n
John Mahama led the NDC to two electoral defeats in 2016 and 2020 after winning his first term in 2012.<\/p>\n
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