The New Patriotic Party has set a target of securing 56% of the votes in the Greater Accra region in the 2024 polls.
The Greater Accra regional chairman, Divine Agorhum, in an interview with Asaase News said, ‘’Our target for the presidential, you will agree with me, is quite a difficult region; we all understand that one, by means of the cosmopolitan nature of the region, so we are looking at getting 56% of the popular votes as the presidential target.”
The Greater Accra region had been the ultimate decider of who took the seat at the Jubilee House.
The story, however, changed in 2020 when the New Patriotic Party lost the Greater Accra Region but still won the presidential election.
Agorhum said, “There were some mistakes that we made that resulted in us losing some of the seats that were traditionally our seats. We shouldn’t have lost Okaikoi North if we had not declared the election day a holiday.”
“You know most of those traders at the Abeka Lapaz stretch; they are all our people. On the holiday, they did not come to work because they registered to vote around the area, so no work means they are not coming and that affected us also in Ablekuma Central, Tema East and some other constituencies’’.
For the parliamentary elections, Agorhum said, ”currently, we are looking at some nine constituencies that, you know, if we are able to work hard, we should be able to snatch from the NDC.
“Again, out of our 14, we have one or two of them. We need to tighten our grip on those constituencies; otherwise, the NDC might end up snatching them from us. For purposes of strategy, I will beg that I keep that to my chest.”
He added, ‘‘At the end of the exercise, NPP will beat NDC here in the Greater Accra region- that I am sure of’’.
He said, “From what we have seen and what we are doing, it is the economy that kind of impacted us negatively a little, but now you can see that we have turned the corner, things are getting better.”
Reporting by Gemma Appiah in Accra
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