my Radio G-Live December Polls: Survey Projecting Bawumia Ahead of Mahama Not Credible – NDC
Written by GliveRadio Accra on June 7, 2024
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has expressed skepticism over a recent survey conducted by Professor Smart Sarpong, Director of Research and Innovation at Kumasi Technical University, which suggests that voters prefer Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as the next President of Ghana.
The survey, conducted across various regions of Ghana, reportedly indicates a strong preference for Bawumia, who is currently serving as the Vice President. It showed that Dr. Bawumia leads as the preferred Presidential Candidate with 38.9% support in the 2024 general elections, while the NDC’s flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, trails with 36.1%. According to the survey, Bawumia leads in Ahafo, Ashanti, Bono, Central, Eastern, North East, Western, and Western North regions.
The survey also noted that all other Presidential aspirants together account for up to 3.6% support. Additionally, it indicated that about 21.4% of prospective voters had not yet decided which Presidential candidate to vote for as of the end of April 2024.
Speaking in an interview with Umaru Sanda Amadu on Eyewitness News on Citi FM on Thursday, the Deputy Communications Director of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Malik Basintale, questioned the credibility of these findings, stating that the survey does not accurately reflect the sentiments of the Ghanaian electorate.
He said that Prof Sarpong was a known lover of the NPP and Dr Bawumia for which reason the survey was questionable.
“The credibility of the researcher is as important as the research work. And so, if I wanted to look at the research work of Sarpong, I would have outrightly attributed many stories to him. I will just say that look he is a known NPP person, we know him from Kumasi Technical University.
“We know his penchant love for the NPP. We know his agape love for Dr Bawumia in fact in many of his releases as far back as November, he said in his own interest, he feels that Dr Bawumia should be president of this country.”
