The overwhelming defeat of John Boadu after all 16 NPP regional chairmen endorsed.
When politicians lose major elections, there is usually a lot of buzz surrounding them; however, when those leaders receive overwhelming endorsements from other equally respectable people and still lose, that makes even more headlines.
John Boadu, the outgoing General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has a story that perfectly fits the above narrative.
After being elected twice to the highest office of the ruling political party, John Boadu's third attempt at the position was widely regarded as impossible for a variety of reasons.
One of these reasons was that he received overwhelming support from party leaders, including one from veteran pollster Ben Ephson.
With only a few days until the election, the NPP's most powerful member, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, also indicated that John Boadu would retain his seat.
It was no surprise when a video of the Ashanti Region NPP Chairman, Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, endorsed him.
In the video, which has since gone viral, Chairman Wontumi is seen rallying all 15 regional chairmen of the party from across the country to declare their support for the defeated John Boadu.
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“The number one sign that we are showing (with our fingers) shows that we are putting all our supports behind John Boadu because he has done it before. The 2024 elections that is ahead of us is not something we want to leave in the hands of an inexperienced person. We need someone who has done it before.
“Because of that, we are putting all our prayers and support behind John Boadu who is at Number One,” Chairman Wontumi said in the video, surrounded by the other 15 chairmen while chanting a song in support.
None of these however went in the favour of the defeated General Secretary and this is something the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has said is an embarrassment to all the party leaders who participated in this campaign.
“My brother Wontumi should cool down. He should cool down [because] he doesn’t own this party. He doesn’t at all. He has to cool down.
"Whipping all [regional] chairmen to raise their hands reluctantly. All of them have been embarrassed. If it had been anywhere, all the chairmen would resign,” he said in an interview attributed to TV3.
Meanwhile, Justin Frimpong Koduah has won the General Secretary position of the governing NPP.
The legal practitioner polled 2,857 votes to beat John Boadu, who obtained 2,524 votes out of the total 5,556 votes cast.
The results of the other candidates were as follows: Iddrisu Musah - 104 votes, Ramseyer Ahmed – 8 votes, Charles Bissue – 12 votes, and Frederick Ansah – 50 votes.
Justin Frimpong Kodua will serve as the General Secretary of the party for the next four years.
JFK is the former Deputy Regional Youth Organiser in 2010 and a member of the NPP Ashanti Regional campaign team in 2008.
He also served as a member of the National Youth Wing of the party as a Chairman of the Legal Committee of the youth wing.
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