Host of Good Evening Ghana, Paul Adom-Otchere, has said the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) swift post-primary reconciliation signals a deliberate strategy to reposition the party ahead of the 2028 general elections.
His remarks follow the victory of Mahamudu Bawumia in the NPP’s presidential primary. In the days after the contest, former contenders and key party figures — including individuals previously perceived as aggrieved — visited Dr. Bawumia at his residence to pledge their support.
Speaking on The Big Issue on Channel One TV on Saturday, February 14, Mr. Adom-Otchere said the party’s urgency in uniting is informed by internal electoral data that reframes the narrative around its 2024 defeat.
According to him, the NPP’s loss was less about a rejection by the broader electorate and more about internal voter fragmentation and turnout inefficiencies.
“When you look at the results of the election, if the NPP had maintained their results in 2020, they would have beaten the NDC in spite of everything that happened,” he argued.
He further suggested that a significant portion of stay-at-home voters in 2024 were likely NPP supporters, and that consolidating those votes could materially alter future outcomes.
“So, in effect, the NPP are coming to the realization that their 2024 defeat was not about a weaker brand, but rather about not settling their own internal difficulty. If they had done that and gone into the election the same way they did in 2020, they would have won,” he stated.
Mr. Adom-Otchere said the visible rallying around Dr. Bawumia demonstrates the party’s recognition that electoral mathematics — not brand erosion — determined the 2024 outcome, making unity the central pillar of its 2028 strategy.
