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National Chairman of the governing\u00a0New Patriotic Party, NPP,\u00a0Freddie Blay, has dismissed a report that states that the party will lose the 2024 elections to the opposition\u00a0National Democratic Congress, NDC.<\/p>\n
The report by the London-based Economic Intelligence Unit, EIU, said the NDC had a better chance of winning the next polls and will also take a slight Parliamentary majority.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the report in an interview on Accra-based Citi FM,\u00a0Freddie Blay\u00a0said the authors of the report were \u2018definitely\u2019 wrong especially because the election was a long way from now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they are wrong, definitely they are wrong. Speaking from where I am and knowing what the government is doing, in spite of the challenges that we are having.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor anybody to consider or to just look at what is happening which is not typical of Ghana but all over the world\u2026 for you to say definitely the NPP will not win\u2026 not less than two years ahead\u2026for you to be convinced under the circumstance to say that we are bound to lose and will not break the eight, I beg to disagree,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n
He likened the 2024 polls to a football match and stressed that the NPP were ready for the opponent and whoever they present as their candidate.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going to play football, these are our opponents, whoever they bring, so far as we are concerned. Any candidate that will be presented by the NDC, we should be okay provided we play our ball well,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The NPP\u2019s Communications Director, Yaw Buaben Asamoa, in a press release dated April 19, also stated that it will be no surprise if the NDC wins the polls but rather if the NPP is able to \u2018break the eight\u2019 \u2013 i.e. win a historic third consecutive term under the current Constitution.<\/p>\n
According to EIU\u2019s five-year forecast for Ghana released on April 13, 2022, the NDC has a higher probability to be victorious in the next general elections.<\/p>\n
President Akufo-Addo\u2019s tenure ends in 2024 with the NPP set to present a new candidate for the next elections. Mahama, if he contests will be going for his fourth straight contest.<\/p>\n
The current government is faced with numerous challenges unemployment, an economic downturn, and corruption among others which London-based analysts believe will fuel citizens\u2019 sentiments against the governing party.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur 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,” the EIU report stated.<\/p>\n
The EIU has, in the past, predicted correctly the outcomes of Ghana\u2019s elections in 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020.<\/p>\n
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