{"id":266467,"date":"2024-12-16T18:07:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T18:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/16\/npp-did-not-suffer-voter-apathy-alone-abdul-aziz\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T18:07:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T18:07:23","slug":"npp-did-not-suffer-voter-apathy-alone-abdul-aziz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/16\/npp-did-not-suffer-voter-apathy-alone-abdul-aziz\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP did not suffer voter apathy alone \u2013 Abdul Aziz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/415\/41509138.295.jpg\" alt=\"Flag of the New Patriotic Party NPP\" title=\"Flag of the New Patriotic Party NPP\" width=\"295\" height=\"172\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Flag of the New Patriotic Party NPP<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">Member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and former Member of Parliament for Mion, Mohammed Abdul-Aziz, has refuted the New Patriotic Party\u2019s (NPP) claims that voter apathy was solely responsible for their electoral defeat.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that the NDC also experienced a decline in voter turnout.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on GHOne TV with Lily Mohammed on December 16, 2024, the former lawmaker acknowledged the widespread voter apathy in the just-ended December 7th general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Aziz asserted that the NDC\u2019s significant victory was not simply a consequence of this phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing the NDC\u2019s vote totals from 2016 and 2020, he noted that a continuation of this trend should have resulted in even higher numbers in 2024. Instead, the party experienced a decrease, indicating that the NDC also faced challenges in mobilizing its base.<\/p>\n<p>He explained, \u201cThe NPP is not the only party that suffered voter apathy. The NDC also suffered. The NDC increased votes from over four million in 2016 to over six million in 2020\u2014an increase of about 1.8 million votes\u2014but increased by only over one hundred thousand from 2020. If we were to increase our votes in 2024 like in 2016 and 2020, we would have gotten over eight million votes in 2024. So, the NDC also suffered voter apathy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flag of the New Patriotic Party NPP Member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and former Member of Parliament for Mion, Mohammed Abdul-Aziz, has refuted the New Patriotic Party\u2019s (NPP) claims that voter apathy was solely responsible for their electoral defeat. He argued that the NDC also experienced a decline in voter turnout. Speaking on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NPP did not suffer voter apathy alone \u2013 Abdul Aziz - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/16\/npp-did-not-suffer-voter-apathy-alone-abdul-aziz\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NPP did not suffer voter apathy alone \u2013 Abdul Aziz - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Flag of the New Patriotic Party NPP Member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and former Member of Parliament for Mion, Mohammed Abdul-Aziz, has refuted the New Patriotic Party\u2019s (NPP) claims that voter apathy was solely responsible for their electoral defeat. 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