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The New Patriotic Party has done quite well in various aspects of our economy, including agriculture, the economy, employment, and labor issues. His biggest award so far is in the education sector.
With the introduction of the free SHS program, the approval rating for the New Patriotic Party went up and has remained very high.
In my previous thoughts I have argued that the political appreciation of the free SHS will only be felt significantly in areas that traditionally vote for the NPP.
The five northern regions that already enjoyed a scholarship for upper secondary education before the free SHS will not be greatly affected by the change of mind policy.
The Oti and Volta regions may not significantly violate their allegiance to the NDC despite the enormous benefits that free SHS may have brought them.
In the Greater Accra region, there are some people who will certainly vote for the NPP because of the free SHS, however there are many more people in elite communities who will not be swayed by politics because they could have paid their fees. neighborhood. even without free SHS.
Significantly, Ashanti, Bono, Bono East, Western, Central, Eastern, Ahafo, and Western North are areas that NPP will reap the free SHS yields. But there is also a problem. Invariably, these are the areas where the Galamsey crisis has hit people hard.
The seized bulldozers, mining concessions and the galamsey shaft and their alleged legacy to the party people caused great pain to many of the residents of the mining communities who relied heavily on galamsey for a living.
Once again, the banking crisis, as I mentioned in my previous post, affected areas where the PNP already has the upper hand or areas where votes will generally tilt both ways. Most of these banks were located in the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Western regions.
Although we can say that the entire country may have been affected by the banking crisis in some way, the pertinent question is: how many of the collapsed banks and financial institutions were operating in the Upper East, Upper West, North East, Northern, Savannah and the Volta regions.
Some of the collapsed institutions were in the changing regions or in the strongholds of the PNP. These “self-destructive” policies that were implemented with the right intention perhaps, but which resulted in a very bad outcome, will openly harm the PNP in this election.
The heartbreaking internal problems that will drag the Trojan horse into the PNP camp is how the party handled its parliamentary primaries. Many people are bitter and ready to bite. If you visited most of the NPP bastions or electoral districts, they won the parliamentary seat in the last elections where there are problems this time, people will tell you that as for Nana, he has no problem, but the problem is with the seat parliamentary. A clear example is Akwatia and the rejection of Ama Sey.
PNP constituencies with parliamentary candidacy problems will generally complain that their favorite was not allowed to compete in the primaries or that someone was technically forced to run unopposed. Poor me! I see that if not for the three black dots on the NPP hence galamsey, the crisis of financial institutions and the afterthought of the snake mother of corruption, the NPP looked better and shone despite others. setbacks they may have suffered. However, since the banking crisis and galamsey will neutralize their achievements in their strengths and areas in which they are doing well, their own internal problems with the candidates for parliament will also hurt them.
The self-destructive phenomenon will occur when internal party problems over parliamentary hopefuls cause the opposition NDC to snatch the majority of the PNP seats to win a majority in parliament. In plausible calculations where the presidential election goes to the second round because both candidates failed to obtain the proper mark to claim victory, the PNP will be severely affected. President Akufo Addo may lead in the first race, but because the NDC may have won a majority in parliament, his chances may increase in the second round to snatch victory.
Furthermore, experts have argued that when parliamentary candidates get it right, they also increase the chances of their presidential candidate. Based on this observation, President Akufo Addo may lose some significant votes in areas where there are these disputes for parliamentary nominations.
At the time when an autopsy was carried out to find out why the PNP had an advantage in the first round but lost in the second round, they would have noticed that its very members who voted for skirt and blouse or gave away votes to independent candidates cast the candidates of the NDC to Outperform both the independent contender and the PNP by creating a dominant advantage for the NDC in parliament and hurting their own party.
That is most likely to happen in this year’s election.
Iddrisu Fuseini
