Nana Akomea, the Chairman of the Communications Directorate for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s 2025 campaign, has launched a data-driven counter-offensive against internal critics attempting to pin the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) 2024 electoral defeat on its former flagbearer.
In a sharp rebuttal to Abetifi MP Dr. Bryan Acheampong, Nana Akomea characterized claims of Bawumia’s personal culpability as “subjective opinion,” devoid of empirical backing. The clash signals a deepening rift within the NPP as the party enters a “post-mortem,” phase ahead of its January 2026 presidential primaries.
“The best academic and independent assessments of the 2024 polls do not support the claim that our candidate was the problem. The findings consistently pointed to voter dissatisfaction with the government’s performance as the primary factor.
“None of the reports attributed the NPP’s loss to Bawumia’s candidature”
Nana Akomea, Chairman of Communications Directorate for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s 2025 Campaign
The central friction lies in the interpretation of the party’s historic loss. While some factions within the NPP have pointed to the “Bawumia brand,” as the primary obstacle to breaking the eight-year cycle, Akomea argued that the defeat was a systemic rejection of government performance.
To stabilize his defense, Akomea pointed to the Prof. Mike Oquaye-led committee, which was commissioned by the party in early 2025 to investigate the causes of the electoral wipeout.
According to Akomea, the committee’s findings – coupled with reports from the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) – consistently identified economic aberrations, the cost of living, and high unemployment as the decisive factors for voters.
The strategy here is to shift the blame from the individual candidate to the collective record of the administration. Akomea contended that no candidate could have successfully outrun the prevailing public dissatisfaction with living standards at the time of the 2024 polls.
Akomea anchored his defense in the “foreseeability” of the defeat. He noted that independent surveys from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and Afrobarometer had projected an NPP loss months before a single ballot was cast.
By citing these institutions, Akomea attempted to “reset” the internal party discourse, moving it away from personality-driven attacks toward an honest evaluation of the party’s governance record.
2026 Primaries
As the NPP prepares for its January 2026 primaries, Nana Akomea challenged Dr. Bryan Acheampong to produce a single credible survey that validates his anti-Bawumia stance. Conversely, Akomea cited recent work by Global InfoAnalytics suggesting that despite the 2024 loss, Bawumia’s support among party delegates is actually on the rise.
This “rising support” narrative is crucial for the Bawumia camp as they seek to convince the party faithful that the 2024 result was an “economic casualty” rather than a rejection of their leader’s vision.
As the NPP navigates this tortuous legal and political journey, Akomea’s intervention serves as a warning against “frivolous” internal finger-pointing. For the communications chief, the 2024 defeat was a clear mandate from the electorate for a policy reset, not a personal indictment of the man at the top of the ticket.
“We must look at the facts. Recent research ahead of the party’s upcoming primaries indicates increasing support for Bawumia among delegates”
Nana Akomea, Chairman of Communications Directorate for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s 2025 Campaign
For the NPP, the road to 2028 clearly begins with an internal war over who truly owns the 2024 defeat. By leaning on the Oquaye verdict, Akomea is betting that data, not rhetoric, will secure Bawumia’s path to a 2025 primary victory.
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