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General news for Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2020-11-24
Ken Agypong is the MP for Assin Central
New Maverick Patriotic Party (NPP) lawmaker Kennedy Agyapong is the party’s most popular person after Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, according to a new book by pollster Ben Ephson.
Delegates, however, say that Central Assin Member of Parliament is unlikely to lead the party after Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, despite her popularity, due to her “quick temper”.
Ephson’s recently published book is titled: ‘2020 Elections: Who Wins?’
It also looks at the four years of President Akufo-Addo’s rule and compares it to the term of his main contender in the upcoming December 7 elections, former President John Dramani Mahama.
Ephson told GhanaWeb that the heavy research book first asked 4,079 NPP delegates the survey question: “Other than Akufo-Addo, who do you think is the most popular person at the party?”
Five names figured prominently in their responses: Kennedy Agyapong, Mahamudu Bawumia, Alan Kyerematen, Joe Ghartey and Dan Botwe.
“The results show that Kennedy Agyapong is the most popular among the delegates. More than 1,000 delegates mentioned his name, followed by Mahamudu Bawumia,” he said.
However, in the follow-up question: ‘Who would you like to be the standard bearer for the match after Akufo-Addo?’ Although the same names featured prominently, this time Alan Kyerematen emerged as the most favored of the delegates to succeed Nana Akufo-Addo.
“When the delegates did not choose the same name they had chosen as popular for a future standard-bearer, we asked them to give reasons. For Kennedy Agyapong, it was his temper. In the case of Bawumia, they said he is young, so he should wait a while, ”Ben Ephson explained the survey results to GhanaWeb on Monday 23 November 2020.
The surveys in the book, he explained, were conducted in 2018, yet analyzes on the administrations of Nana Akufo-Addo and John Mahama were completed days before the book was printed.
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