If the details of the controversial research said to have been done by the former Deputy Health Minister, Rojo Mettle Nunoo is anything to go by, then some members of the John Mahama led government knew beforehand the NDC could lose the 2016 elections.

The report sighted by Joy News predicted a rather bleak NDC performance in 2016, worse than it did in 2004.

While much of the debate on the research has been on the controversial diversion of funds to conduct the research, the findings were just as equally controversial.

“Examining the results of the presidential elections it is evident that the proportion of support for the NDC increased from 2004 to 2008. It then stayed relatively constant to 2012, however based on our analysis, at current decrease rates it is most likely for the support for NDC to decrease even below the 2004 levels at the 2016 elections,” the report said.

The report also predicted that the NPP will make inroads in the Volta Region, an area described as the ‘world bank’ of the NDC and possibly win a Parliamentary seat.

True to the findings of the report, the 2016 elections proved quite suicidal for the NDC, the first time a sitting president lost to an opposition party and by more than a million votes.

Click here for the details of the research conducted by UK-based SCL Social, the mother company of Cambridge Analytica. According to the report, SCL Social was paid $6 million to undertake a nationwide survey to provide data for the proper planning of the healthcare needs of Ghana.