The Managing Editor of The Custodian, Awudu Mahama, has asserted that grassroots unity is the most critical factor for electoral success, regardless of friction at the leadership level.
Speaking on GHOne TV’s GHToday with Joshua Kodjo Mensah on Friday, February 6, 2026, Awutu Mahama analysed the dynamics of political mobilisation and the recent peaceful conduct of internal party processes.
Reflecting on historical election data, he highlighted a disconnect that often occurs between a party’s national leadership and its local supporters. He argued that while leadership unity is ideal, it is the state of the “base” that determines voter turnout.
“If you unite the top and the down is disunited, they will not turn out to vote,” Mahama explained. He contrasted the 2024 results with the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) victory in 2016, noting that during that cycle, the “NPP was boiling at the top, but the base was united.”
According to Awudu Mahama, this bottom-up cohesion is what ultimately secures the win, as it ensures voters will turn out “no matter what happened at the national level.”
The managing editor took the opportunity to commend the National Presidential Election Committee, the police, and the media for ensuring a peaceful electoral process. He noted that despite dire predictions and “prophecies of doom,” the feared violence failed to materialise.
“People predicted… they were going to cut losses and all that. They even said Canada and Japan will pull a gun,” he remarked, referencing the hyperbolic fears surrounding the election. “It never happened. They said they will be blasted. It never happened.”
In a pointed critique, the Managing Editor dismissed individuals he described as “charlatans” who initially prayed for the party’s failure but later claimed credit for its peaceful outcome through intercession.
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Awudu Mahama used a vivid medical analogy to describe the hypocrisy: “You want me dead. And yet, when I go to a hospital and God has found favour in me… you say that you have prayed for me? Does it make sense? You have been praying for my death.”
He warned that those who do not learn from these experiences face a “terrible” future, suggesting that their eventual shame would be “beyond repairs.”
Source: Starrfm.com.gh/Abigail Boatemaa Baah
