NDC won't win 1.5m votes or 13 seats in Ashanti; We're aware of their tricks - NPP

Contrary to the ruling National Democratic Congress' (NDC) claims that it was doing well in the Ashanti Region and was going to win 1.5 million votes in the upcoming presidential elections, Regional Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Stephen Amoah has said the situation on the ground was as being portrayed by the NDC.

The Ashanti Region is the stronghold of the opposition NPP but the NDC, touting President John Mahama's achievements in the region, has since the last year declared it was going to win one million votes.

However, at the launch of their campaign in the Ashanti Region last month, the party's National Organiser and Campaign Coordinator, Kofi Adams announced the revision of the target to 1.5 million saying the results of research conducted by the party in the region suggested they would fare better.

President Mahama at the start of his Ashanti Regional campaign tour reiterated the 1.5 million vote target adding that the evidence on the ground shows the NDC could win 13 out of the total 47 constituencies in the region.

“We already have four constituencies in this region and we are targeting nine more to make it thirteen. We have conducted a survey which has proven that we can win 13 constituencies in this region, and we will do exactly that,” he told party supporters at Dompoase.

But according to the NPP's Regional Organiser, considering the reality on the ground,  it was either the NDC was deliberately not telling the truth or were going to use unapproved means to garner such a number of votes.

"The fact is that the NDC in the Ashanti region is not doing well and will perform very poorly on December 7" and would want to use other means but "we are aware of all the tricks that the NDC want to do in the Ashanti Region and they won’t work", he stated.

Speaking on Class FM's Executive Breakfast Show on Monday, he said  there was no way the NDC would win 1.5 million votes or 13 seats in the Ashanti Region. 

"The president is going to lose this election  and the NDC stands a high risk of losing the seats they already have in the Ashanti Region", he maintained.