The first National Vice Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dankwa Smith Butey, has said the national executives cannot absolve themselves from responsibility for their defeat in the 2024 election.
In an interview on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem, Chairman Butey stated that the executives must take responsibility for the outcome, even though it was unpleasant.
He argued that if the party had won, the executives would have claimed the glory, so they must equally accept responsibility for the defeat.
“I admit we must take responsibility because if there was a win, we would have said we made it happen. So we must accept the defeat and apologise,” he said.
Chairman Butey believes there should have been more effective collaboration between the national, regional, and other executive levels to drive the election campaign successfully.
“The national level should have pushed the regions, then it trickles down to the constituencies and other levels, but our performance was not the best, and all we can do is apologise,” he added.
The NPP was poised to break the eight-year cycle with its presidential candidate and then Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.
However, the party suffered significant losses in both the presidential and parliamentary contests.
John Mahama, on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), was elected and declared winner by the Electoral Commission (EC) after polling 6,328,397 votes, representing 56.55%, while Dr. Bawumia secured 4,657,304 votes, representing 41.61%.
In Parliament, there was also a historic shift in power as the NDC obtained 183 seats, leaving the NPP with just 88 seats.
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