[ad_1]
The Ashanti Regional Office of the ruling New Patriotic Party (PNP) will establish a committee to review the 2020 General Election.
Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, the regional president, said the committee would be tasked with critically analyzing the performance of the Party in the 47 electoral districts.
Contrary to the projections of the Regional Office, the PNP managed to win 42 of the 47 electoral districts foreseen in the parliamentary elections, losing two of its 44 seats before the polls.
He also obtained 1,795,824 of the total of 2,467,291 valid votes cast in the presidential elections, representing 71.77 percent.
This falls short of the 90 percent of the votes that the PNP had predicted before the December 7 elections.
In 2016, the PNP had more than 1.6 million votes, representing 75.04 percent of the total valid votes cast in the presidential race in the Region, a traditional stronghold of the Party.
Antwi-Boasiako told the media in Kumasi that the Party did quite well in Ashanti, but that they would be investigating the factors that contribute to the NPP’s inability to achieve its goals.
In a post-election interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), some members of the Party hierarchy attributed the consequences of this year’s elections to the apparent fissures in some of the electoral districts due to what happened in the recent NPP parliamentary primaries.
Many of the aggrieved parliamentary candidates who were barred from participating in the primaries threatened to stand as independent candidates for general elections in their various constituencies.
They included; Asokwa, Bekwai, Suame and Fomena, where the PNP lost its seat to an independent candidate.
— GNA
