[ 2016-11-12 ]

Trump's victory shows polls were fatally corrupted – Franklin Cudjoe
he Executive Director of IMANI Ghana says the
Victory of Republican’s Donald Trump in the US
has disproved all the polls which favored
Democratic’s Hilary Clinton.

Franklin Cudjoe says the media backed by some
individuals decided to bastardize Mr Trump and
this resulted in the kind of negative reportage he
received in the course of the campaign.

“I wasn’t surprised at his win [because] those
polls were corruptly rigged,” he told Raymond
Acquah, host of Joy FM’s Ghana Connect programme
Friday.

The Wednesday victory of Mr Trump over his fierce
contender Mrs Clinton has sent shockwaves
throughout the world.

The announcement has sparked some riots and
protests across the United States by supporters of
Mrs Clinton who believe their candidate was given
a wrong deal especially when all the major polls
conducted had pointed to a massive win for her.

The former First Lady was tipped to win the
election by a bigger margin against Mr Trump who
was seen as a lousy fellow because of his policies
of stopping immigration and constructing a wall to
separate Mexico and US.

Opinions polled by major research institutions in
the country heavily predicted a 48-9 percent for
Mrs Clinton and 41-2 for Mr Trump.

However, this was short-lived after the US Federal
Bureau of Investigations (FBI) reopened a case in
which the Democratic candidate was being
investigated for tampering with classified
documents.

FBI Director, James Comey wrote to the US Congress
few days to the polls that his outfit's position
that the former First Lady should not be
prosecuted stands.

At the end of the elections, out of 538 electoral
votes, Mr Trump polled 279 votes while Mrs Clinton
had 218 votes, topping the 270 votes needed for
the said majority.

He lost the popular votes by 395,595 difference.
He had 60,071,650 representing 47.4 as against Mrs
Clinton’s 60,467,245 which represents 47.7
percent of the votes.

"This is record-breaking," the IMANI boss said in
reaction to the performance of one of the most
'despised' presidential candidate throughout
history.

Mr Cudjoe said the deliberate attempt to muzzle
the election for the former First Lady has been
exposed by the results.

"The doom hasn't stopped," he said, adding after
the businessman was declared winner people are
making vile predictions that he would be the worst
President in the history of the US.

Even though he did not take part in voting in
person, a Yale University student said he was not
surprised by the outcome of the elections.

Tunde Akim said anyone with a perfect
understanding of the US history would appreciate
the reason the Republican nominee won.

He explained Mr Trump's victory was necessitated
by the state of the economy which many Americans
feared might worsen under Clinton leadership.

"The US is such a world power and more people need
to realize how our politics is conducted," he
said.

Assistant Editor of Joy Business, George Wiafe, a
Ghanaian Clintonite, read a story from Bloomberg
which said the world financial market has had some
setbacks due to the polls results.

“More than one Trillion was wiped off the value
of bonds around the world this week as
President-Elect Donald Trump’s policies are seen
as...," he said inconclusively when IMANI boss
interjected.

Although Communication expert, Raymond Bayor,
backed the position of Mr Cudjoe about the massage
polls results, he said the backlashes the Republic
nominee suffered in the hands of the establishment
were because of his utterances.

"Perceptions of Trump are not contrived," he said,
"but they are based on what he had said throughout
the campaign."

Nonetheless, he said anyone who understands what
happens in America should not be shocked with the
elections outcome.

"I think that the writings were on the wall."

Source - Joyfm

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