Politics of Tuesday, 15 December 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comNPP reveals key factors that caused party’s 2020 votes to reduce in Ashanti RegionFile photo of NPP flagAn executive of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said votes in the 2020 election dropped for the party in the Ashanti Region due in part to the banking sector clean-up and the clampdown on illegal mining activities (galamsey). The Ashanti Regional Organiser of the NPP, Francis Adomako, told Kumasi-based Luv FM that the NPP saw at least a 4-percentage point reduction in the 2020 polls. “Some of the small-scale miners accused the team of attacking them and nothing was done by the government and party to help them,” Francis Adomako is quoted in a report published on Myjoyonline. NPP saw a reduction in votes in the Ashanti Region, regarded as its stronghold, from 76.30 per cent in 2016 to 72.70 per cent in 2020. The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), however, gained votes as it moved from 23 per cent to 26.10 per cent.

Source: GhanaWeb December 15, 2020 13:41 UTC