Dr Bryan Acheampong has responded to a recent Global InfoAnalytics poll that placed him at 5 per cent in the New Patriotic Party flagbearer race, questioning both the methodology and the motives behind the survey.
The October poll ranked him behind former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and Kennedy Agyapong, a finding Acheampong openly rejected during an interview on PM Express. “First of all, what is Global InfoAnalytics’ interest in this poll?” he asked.
When it was pointed out that Global InfoAnalytics is a polling organisation, he pressed further.
“Who pays them?” he asked. “I know what I know, but I’m saying…” He described the 5 per cent figure as implausible. “Somebody must have an interest such that you do a nationwide poll and you give me 5%. No, come on.”
Acheampong contrasted the poll with his own delegate data, stressing the size of the NPP’s electoral college.
“There are 209,000 delegates,” he said, disputing claims that only a small sample had been surveyed. “He says that he’s profiled 3,000. It means he pulled 12 people out of 700 and then passes a judgment that of the 700, I will get 5%.”
He also cited what he described as inconsistencies in Global InfoAnalytics’ own figures on Dr Bawumia.
“In May, Dr Bawumia was polling 77% according to the same organisation,” he said, listing a steady decline over subsequent months. “June, 77%, July, 70, August 55, September 52, October 47, November 42.”
Projecting forward, he added, “By December, let’s say it comes to 35. In January, it comes to about 25.” Acheampong questioned how a large undecided bloc could suddenly emerge.
“From his own report, he says that the undecided is huge, 30%,” he said. “Two candidates are in the race. The delegates have not changed.”
According to him, fear rather than indecision explains the numbers. “So there’s a lot of intimidation going on. So people don’t want to tell you that you vote for Bryan, because others are intimidating them,” he claimed, though he declined to name those involved.
