Former Bekwai MP Joseph Osei-Owusu has disclosed that the New Patriotic Party’s internal post-election report revealed a troubling trend — more than two million voters in the party’s strongholds chose not to participate in the last general election. According to him, their silence was a message the party can no longer ignore.
“The report shows that a little over two million people around our stronghold did not go out to vote. They also told us a story,” he said on Citi FM’s Eyewitness News.
Osei-Owusu acknowledged that this disengagement was a reflection of voter disappointment and served as a painful but necessary mirror.
“They made us look at what we did wrong… Things we said, things we overlooked, things we ought to have known, things we ought not to have done, but we did,” he admitted.
He called on the party to move beyond a narrow focus on electoral victories and connect meaningfully with its disillusioned base.
“It is appropriate that we go round to thank them. The thank you tour is not only for those who have won,” he said, suggesting the party’s immediate focus should be reconciliation and accountability rather than celebration.
Meanwhile, seasoned journalist Kwesi Pratt has raised questions about the transparency surrounding the very report Osei-Owusu referred to.
Speaking on Good Morning Ghana on Metro TV, Pratt questioned why access to the Mike Oquaye Committee’s final report has reportedly been limited — even to those who contributed to it.
“According to the party, it prepared only one copy of the report, not two, and that one copy of the report was presented to the national council. It stands to reason that Mike Oquaye himself doesn’t have a copy of the report which he wrote,” Pratt remarked.
