[ 2017-01-18 ]

2020 polls: NDC will win only 70 seats – Boahen
The performance of the opposition National
Democratic Congress (NDC) will dwindle drastically
in the 2020 presidential and parliamentary
elections, Nana Obiri Boahen, Deputy General
Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has
said.

According to him, the party will retain only 70
parliamentary seats in the next elections, a drop
from the current 103 seats it won in the 2016
elections.

Prior to the 2016 polls, the NDC held the majority
in parliament with 148 seats to the NPP’s 123.
But the tables have turned – the NDC now has 103
seats as against 170 for the NPP.

At the presidential level, Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo won the elections with 53.85 percent of
the total valid votes cast to become Ghana’s
fifth president in the Fourth Republic, whereas
John Mahama, the then incumbent president, managed
44.40 per cent.

Speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen on Wednesday
January 18, Mr Obiri Boahen noted that given that
the NPP won the elections in spite of the
intimidation and frustration most of its members
were subjected to by the NDC, the 2020 elections
would “show the NDC their real size in the
country”.

He said: “In 2020, NPP members will be able to
do effective campaigning with fear and
intimidation from the NDC. They will do the
campaign effectively because the police will be
more professional in protecting lives and
properties. We will cut them to size in the 2020
elections because we will no longer be intimidated
by anybody. The NDC will win only 70 seats in
parliament.”

Source - classfmonline.com

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