{"id":111377,"date":"2026-01-16T16:17:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=111377"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:17:39","slug":"our-pc-candidates-beat-our-presidential-candidate-bryan-acheampong-calls-for-unifying-candidate-to-lead-npp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=111377","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOur PC candidates beat our presidential candidate\u201d \u2013 Bryan Acheampong calls for unifying candidate to lead NPP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful, Dr Bryan Acheampong, has argued that the party\u2019s 2024 electoral performance shows the urgent need for a presidential candidate who can unify the base and translate parliamentary strength into presidential votes.<\/p>\n

Addressing party supporters during a campaign visit to the Ningo-Prampram constituency on Friday, with just two weeks to the NPP\u2019s January 31 presidential primaries, Dr Acheampong pointed to voting patterns from the 2024 elections as evidence of a growing disconnect between the party\u2019s parliamentary and presidential results.<\/p>\n

According to him, NPP parliamentary candidates outperformed the party\u2019s presidential candidate by wide margins in several regions, raising concerns about voter confidence at the top of the ticket.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn many parts of the country, our parliamentary candidates performed significantly better than our presidential candidate,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cAcross constituencies, the difference was about 30,000 votes. In the Upper East Region alone, the gap was close to 40,000 votes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr Acheampong noted that the situation was particularly striking in the Savannah Region, where all seven constituencies recorded stronger parliamentary results for the NPP than presidential votes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you take the seven constituencies in the Savannah Region together, our parliamentary candidates beat our presidential candidate by about 17,000 votes,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

He cited Damongo as a specific example, referencing the performance of Samuel Abu Jinapor, the NPP parliamentary candidate for the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Damongo, Abu Jinapor beat our presidential candidate by about 4,000 votes,\u201d Dr Acheampong said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat means 4,000 people voted for the NPP parliamentary candidate, but when it came to our presidential candidate, Mahamudu Bawumia, they walked away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr Acheampong argued that these figures underscore the need for a presidential candidate who can consolidate the party\u2019s grassroots support and convert parliamentary loyalty into votes at the presidential level.<\/p>\n

The NPP will elect its presidential candidate on January 31, as the party prepares for the 2028 general elections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"Our PC candidates beat our presidential candidate\" - Bryan Acheampong calls for unifying candidate to lead NPPNew Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful, Dr Bryan Acheampong, has argued that the party\u2019s 2024 electoral performance shows the urgent need for a presidential candidate who can unify the base and translate parliamentary strength into presidential votes.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,1883,1871,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bryan-acheampong","category-national","category-npp-presidential-primaries","category-politics","category-popular"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}