‘People on high horses usually don’t see the grounds’ — Prof Kobby Mensah on NPP’s criticism of poll findings

Professor Kobby Mensah, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana has weighed in on the ruling NPP’s criticism of polls organized Global InfoAnalytics.

The March 2024 pre-election survey
revealed that the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramana Mahama has a substantial lead in all three swing regions of the country.

The one-time President leads Vice President Dr. Bawumia of the ruling NPP with a nearly 20 percent margin.

In response, the Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) 2024 Campaign, Dennis Miracles Aboagye stated that the poll result from Global InfoAnalytics is not a true reflection of reality on the ground.

Addressing a news conference in Accra on Tuesday, April 9, Miracles Aboagye confronted the poll outcomes.

“There is not a single organisation that has authority over electoral polling. We have about four, five, six of them that we work with. Unfortunately, it looks like this particular poll [Global InfoAnalytics] is one that we never received their indices that they use.

“Who are you sampling? Which people are you talking to? We don’t have much we can do about that particular one because it doesn’t tell much. It looks very scanty. It really doesn’t tell off polling that was done properly,” he reiterated.

However according to Prof Kobby Mensah, the NPP do not find the poll to be a reflection on the grounds because “People on high horses usually don’t see the grounds.”