Deputy Communications Officer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ernest Owusu Bempah, has claimed that a staggering number of the party’s supporters refused to participate in the 2024 general elections, citing disappointment over the choice of presidential candidate.
Speaking during an interview on Oyerepa TV, Owusu Bempah revealed that more than 2.1 million NPP supporters deliberately stayed away from the polls — a form of silent protest, in his view, over the party’s decision at the flagbearership level.
“For the first time, I met a taxi driver who is a member of NPP who told me that he voted for the NDC in the 2024 election, he showed me his party card, and the reason is that we didn’t take the right candidate for him to come and vote for,” Bempah shared, recounting a personal encounter that, to him, reflects a broader issue across the party’s grassroots.
He suggested that the magnitude of the voter apathy cannot be brushed aside. “Go down there with a hidden camera and ask the ordinary people why they refused to vote. 2.1 million decided not to go and vote, 2.1 million, do you think it is a joke? NPP party base, supporters refused to vote, do you know what that means?”
According to Bempah, the implications of this mass boycott should not be underestimated. He hinted that more revelations would soon surface once the internal committee led by former Speaker Prof. Mike Oquaye completes its report.
“Let Prof Mike Oquaye’s Committee bring out their report and that is where we will hear things,” he said, suggesting the party will be forced to confront uncomfortable truths when the findings are made public.
