{"id":1105389,"date":"2022-05-31T12:57:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T12:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/31\/breaking-the-8-with-wontumi-will-be-an-illusion-ben-ephson-to-npp\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T12:57:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T12:57:52","slug":"breaking-the-8-with-wontumi-will-be-an-illusion-ben-ephson-to-npp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/31\/breaking-the-8-with-wontumi-will-be-an-illusion-ben-ephson-to-npp\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Breaking the 8\u2019 with Wontumi will be an illusion \u2013 Ben Ephson to NPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"462\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BEN-EPHSON-696x462.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Ben Ephson\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Ephson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pollster and Managing Editor of the Dispatch Newspaper, Ben Ephson, says the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is heading for a defeat in the 2024 election if the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the party, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, does not change his leadership style.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Starr News, Mr Ephson indicated that per his survey in the Ashanti Region, Chairman Wontumi had failed the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should forget 2024 unless you decide to keep a close eye on him; I repeat, if NPP allows Wontumi to run Ashanti Region NPP as he did from 2016 to 2020, check the records anytime NPP gets 70% and below, they lose the presidential election,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on why the other candidates lost the election to Wontumi, Mr Ephson said he would not disclose that for legal reasons.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause, how will somebody under whose watch the NPP collapsed from 76% in 2016 to 71% in 2020, someone you claim has a hundred houses rent an office for the party; he doesn\u2019t pay the rent, and the party is thrown out. I have pictures. But for legal reasons, whatever happened, people know why Wontumi won the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf NPP wants to \u2018Break the 8\u2019, they will have to work triple hard with such a chairman in place. I have pictures, but for legal reasons. How do you vote for somebody who brings your party down by 5% in four years?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did some work there, and people were angry, but when you are offered certain things\u2026 that is why I am saying that NPP doesn\u2019t belong to my father; I am CPP. So if someone is retained and you like him to run the way he ran it from 2016 to 2020, you lost 4.5% times in Ashanti. So if they are going to allow him like what he did, breaking the eight will be an illusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"XX62Qp_aQyA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam Media Review on Adom TV (31-5-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XX62Qp_aQyA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Ephson Pollster and Managing Editor of the Dispatch Newspaper, Ben Ephson, says the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is heading for a defeat in the 2024 election if the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the party, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, does not change his leadership style. 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