NPP can recapture power in 2028 – Dr. Bawumia
New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, says he is confident the party can win the 2028 general elections if it effectively mobilises its base and ensures a strong voter turnout.
Speaking at the launch of his “Our Journey Together” campaign in the Sene East constituency on Wednesday October 15, Dr. Bawumia said the party’s loss in the 2024 elections was not due to the strength of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), but rather due to low turnout among NPP supporters.
“I am confident that, by the grace of God, if we resolve our internal issues and go out to vote, we will win the next election,” Dr. Bawumia said.
He pointed to data from the 2024 elections, explaining that over 2.1 million people who voted for the NPP in 2020 did not vote in 2024 — a gap that ultimately cost the party victory.
“The NPP’s votes went down. About 2.1 million people who voted for us in 2020 did not vote in 2024. These were NPP members — we simply didn’t vote,” he explained.
Dr. Bawumia said former President John Mahama won the election with a margin of 1.7 million votes — fewer than the number of NPP voters who stayed home.
“If our 2.1 million members had turned out, we would have won. That is why I said it wasn’t the NDC that won the election — it was the NPP that lost it,” he added.
