Pollster Ben Ephson has stated that he will be shocked if the National Democratic Congress (NDC) General Secretary is voted into office as the next Chairman at the upcoming delegates’ congress.
The Managing Editor of the Daily Dispatch newspaper believes the incumbent, Chairman Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, will be retained over Johnson Aseidu Nketia.
His prediction is based on the outcome of the Youth and Women’s conference held last Saturday at the University of Cape Coast.
“The mood and the level of voting in the women and youth elections send a signal. How do you change a team that has done so well between 2016 and 2020? In 2016, Mahama lost the election by about one million votes.
“In 2020, he lost by about 514,000 votes and if the trend of voting in the women and youth election is an indicator, I will be very surprised if Asiedu Nketiah wins,” he said in an interview on Accra-based Asaase Radio.
“The audio of Asiedu Nketia has done him no good. It has only put him out as somebody you will sacrifice the party’s overall benefit for his own personal and selfish gain,” he added.
The NDC scribe, who was addressing party members in the viral audio, claimed his candidate, Chairman Ofosu-Ampofo, is at odds with former President John Mahama.
This miscommunication between the Chairman and an incoming flagbearer will not bode well for a political party seeking to gain power in 2024.
He also blamed the NDC’s defeat in 2020 on the National Chairman, who he claimed failed to put in place the necessary measures.
