Akufo-Addo; 52%, Mahama; 45%: Ben Ephson predicts one-touch victory for NPP
Managing Editor of the Daily Dispatch newspaper, Ben Ephson has predicted a one-touch victory for President Akufo-Addo on the December polls.
Mr. Ephson says President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will garner 52.6% of the total votes with opposition John Dramani Mahama gaining 45.7%.
“With a 2% margin of error, our polls indicated Nana Addo will win the 2020 election in a one touch victory with 52.6% with John Mahama getting 45.7%,” he said on Angel FM’s Anɔpa Bɔfoɔ with Captain Smart, keenly followed by Ghanas Online.
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He explained reasons such as the introduction of the Teacher and Nursing trainee allowances by the NPP, which was cancelled by the erstwhile Mahama administration three months to election.
Also, he said with over 1.3 million voters being between the ages of 18 and 19, the Free Senior High School policy introduced by the NPP will also constitute to their victory.
“The free SHS will also count. Even though many of those who will vote may not have benefitted directly from the policy, they have siblings who are in senior high schools enjoying,” he said.
Corruption, according to Mr. Ephson was something that was tagged with Mahama in the run up to the 2016 elections. However, there have been several corruption incidents in the Akufo-Addo administration which the NDC could not capitalise on.
The six new regions according to the pollster would also appreciate some votes for the NPP.
He explained “some floating voters may vote for a particular parliamentary candidate and say ‘let me thank Nana Addo for giving us a new region’.”
Notwithstanding his wrong prediction about Mahama’s victory in 2016, Mr. Ephson noted what constituted the many wrong predictions in the previous elections and has subsequently fixed it.
“In 2016, almost all the polls were wrong because we didn’t factor the issue of voter apathy and this time around, we’ve considered all that and we know we are going to get it right,” he averred.
He said his credibility is intact “after conducting five polls over 20 years, getting four correct and one wrong. This is 80%.”
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