{"id":3383,"date":"2024-12-24T08:11:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T08:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2024-12-24T08:11:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T08:11:43","slug":"ndc-never-won-the-2024-general-elections-prof-stephen-adei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/24\/ndc-never-won-the-2024-general-elections-prof-stephen-adei\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC Never Won the 2024 General Elections- Prof. Stephen Adei"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Professor Stephen Adei, former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), has offered his insights on the 2024 general elections. According to him, the New Democratic Congress (NDC) didn&#8217;t actually win the election; instead, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) lost due to voter apathy among its supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"453\" data-src=\"https:\/\/gistme.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_7813.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3387 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 696px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 696\/453;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Adei pointed out that President-elect John Mahama&#8217;s vote margin in 2024 was only about 200,000 votes more than what he received in 2020. This, Adei argues, suggests that the NDC&#8217;s support base didn&#8217;t significantly increase. He attributed the NPP&#8217;s loss to their failure to address the concerns of Ghanaians, including economic management and performance issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-src=\"https:\/\/gistme.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_7814-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3388 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/683;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Adei also cautioned against removing the Electoral Commission Chair, Jean Mensa, and Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, emphasizing that such actions would undermine Ghana&#8217;s institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDC Never Won the 2024 General Elections- Prof. Stephen Adei<\/p>\n<p>Professor Stephen Adei, former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), has offered his insights on the 2024 general elections. According to him, the New Democratic Congress (NDC) didn&#8217;t actually win the election; instead, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) lost due to voter apathy among its supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Adei pointed out that President-elect John Mahama&#8217;s vote margin in 2024 was only about 200,000 votes more than what he received in 2020. This, Adei argues, suggests that the NDC&#8217;s support base didn&#8217;t significantly increase. He attributed the NPP&#8217;s loss to their failure to address the concerns of Ghanaians, including economic management and performance issues.<\/p>\n<p>Adei also cautioned against removing the Electoral Commission Chair, Jean Mensa, and Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, emphasizing that such actions would undermine Ghana&#8217;s institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3390,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions\/3390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}