Mussa Dankwah, Executive Director of Global InfoAnalytics, says new polling results from the Kpandai Constituency show that, while voter emotions overwhelmingly favour the incumbent National Democratic Congress, the parliamentary race is still too close to call.
This comes ahead of the December 30 Kpandai parliamentary election rerun, which was ordered by the High Court on November 24 to take place within 30 days of the Kpandai seat being vacant.
Former Kpandai Member of Parliament Matthew Nyindam has challenged the ruling, claiming that the 2024 parliamentary election was conducted fairly and promising to participate in the rerun despite ongoing legal challenges.
On December 8, the Clerk of Parliament formally confirmed to the Electoral Commission that the Kpandai seat was empty, paving the way for the rerun on December 30.
Speaking on the poll’s results on Saturday, December 13, on Channel One Newsroom, Mr. Dankwah pointed out that most respondents think the nation is moving in the right way, which often benefits the current administration.
“The sentiments in Kpandai overall appear to favour the ruling NDC government in the sense that you have a majority of voters saying that the country is heading in the right direction,” he stated.
The poll’s findings show that 66% of participants thought Ghana was headed in the right way, while 26% said the nation was headed in the wrong direction. Eight percent had no view.
According to Mr. Dankwah, 64% of respondents approved of the President’s performance, indicating equally high approval ratings. Nine percent said they had no opinion, and twenty-seven percent disapproved.
Additionally, the study evaluated respondents’ perceptions of their own financial circumstances.
According to Mr. Dankwah, 54% of voters claimed their financial circumstances had improved, 34% said they had stayed the same, and 11% said they had become worse. One percent were indifferent.
“So broadly, this is a sentiment that should really carry the NDC candidate across the finish line quite easily,” he explained.
He did, however, issue a warning that the Kpandai parliamentary race is still quite competitive despite these encouraging signs for the ruling party.
Mr. Dankwah stated, “What we’ve seen in the poll when it comes to the parliamentary election is that it is too close to call. The margin is just within the margin of error,”
He emphasised the need to wait for the last round of polling to ascertain the likely direction of the race, adding that the parliamentary contest’s outcome cannot yet be anticipated with certainty due to the narrow margins.
He came to the conclusion that “For that reason, we have to wait for the final poll to see which direction the election will go.”
Source: newsthemegh.com