Kafui Sorkpa Agbleze, the Volta Regional Communications Director of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has stated that the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) cannot achieve its target in the Volta Region in the upcoming December polls.

At a recent press conference organised by the NPP in Ho regarding Election 2024, the National Communications Director of the NPP, Richard Ahiagba, stated that the NPP aims to secure between 300,000 and 500,000 presidential votes in the upcoming election.

But in a press release issued by Kafui Agbleze a day after the press conference, he claimed that the NPP’s target is unachievable: “The Volta Region currently has 1,023,147 registered voters. For the NPP to claim they will win nearly 500,000 of these votes is simply wishful thinking, bordering on fantasy.”

He added, “This target would require a level of trust and support that the NPP has never earned and will never receive. After all, this is the same party that has presided over years of excruciating economic hardship, with skyrocketing prices of goods and services, rampant unemployment, and a depreciating cedi. The people of the Volta Region, who have endured enough from the NPP’s economic mismanagement, are well aware that promises from this administration mean very little.”

Kafui Agbleze strongly objected to the NPP’s target, citing records from previous election results in the region. “Let us review the facts: in 2016, they set a far-fetched target of winning 30% of the presidential vote in the Volta Region. The result? They managed a mere 10.81%. Four years later, in 2020, with similarly inflated expectations, they captured only 14.14% of the vote, despite their attempts to convince Ghanaians that the NDC’s stronghold had weakened. Clearly, these figures highlight their continuous pattern of overpromising and underperforming.”

He further stated, “For the NPP to assume that they could win nearly half of the votes in the Volta Region is not only absurd but frankly insulting to the intelligence of Voltarians. The NPP has, for decades, set one unrealistic target after another in this region, and each time, they have failed miserably.”

He therefore called on the general public to “see through the NPP’s empty promises and stand with us in rejecting the propaganda they continue to peddle.”