The 2024 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has blamed his defeat to president John Dramani Mahama to a significant number of his party supporters refusing to vote.
According to Dr. Bawumia, it is not true that the NPP lost the elections because the Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo government failed woefully.
Speaking on the first day of the Party’s National Thank You Tour on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, at the party’s headquarters in Accra, Dr. Bawumia acknowledged the dedicated efforts of all party members, from the National Organizer, Women’s Organizer, and General Secretary to grassroot supporters.
Despite these collective efforts, he noted that the party was defeated, an outcome that has since been interpreted in various ways. However, he emphasized that the loss stemmed from internal issues.
Dr. Bawumia revealed that a major concern was voter turnout, explaining that approximately 2.1 million NPP supporters failed to vote compared to the 2020 elections. He contrasted this with the National Democratic Congress (NDC), noting that while the NDC increased its votes by 115,000, the NPP’s vote count dropped by over 2 million, clearly indicating that low voter turnout among NPP supporters was the main cause of the defeat.
