The Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Ahiagbah, has rejected polls conducted by Global Info Analytics ahead of the Akwatia by-election, describing them as “illegitimate” and a tool of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Before the September 2 polls, the research firm had projected victory for the NDC’s Bernard Baidoo Bediako with 53% of the vote.
The forecast was later confirmed by the Electoral Commission’s certified results, which declared Bediako winner with 18,199 votes (54.3%) against the NPP’s Solomon Kwame Asumadu, who polled 15,235 (45.46%).
But speaking on Morning Starr with Naa Dedei Tettey, Mr. Ahiagbah argued that Mussa Dankwah, Executive Director of Global Info Analytics, uses polls to shape public opinion rather than reflect voter realities.
“Polls don’t win elections. Polls are perceptions. And when it comes especially to Mussa Dankwah’s poll, I have an enduring position against Mussa’s kind of polling as part of the NDC’s grand scheme to alter public perception. That’s what it was used for in 2024.
You, I’m pretty sure, came to believe that the NDC was going to win the election by virtue of the cooked data that Mussa Dankwah has been putting out. It’s not a legitimate polling. If anything at all, it’s a part of NDC’s public communication to ensure that the public believes one thing or another. And by their design, it’s a strategy they have,” Mr. Ahiagbah claimed.
He accused the NDC of deliberately propping up Dankwah as an independent pollster to lend credibility to what he described as partisan propaganda.
Meanwhile, the Electoral Commission’s results showed Patrick Owusu of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) finished a distant third with 82 votes out of 33,819 valid ballots cast. A total of 303 ballots were rejected.
Source: Starrfm.com.gh
