You don't need a committee to understand why you lost; you had too many clever clowns — Franklin Cudjoe to NPP

IMANI Africa Founding President, Franklin Cudjoe, has criticized the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for its intention to set up a committee to assess the reasons behind its loss in the 2024 general elections.

In a Facebook post on Friday, December 13, Mr. Cudjoe dismissed the need for such an effort, describing the party’s loss as self-inflicted.

“I’m surprised the NPP is thinking of a committee to understand why it was manhandled severely by the electorate,” he wrote.

“They were very lazy, fantastically corrupt, innately arrogant and rabidly tone-deaf! They had many clever clowns too,” he added.

This statement comes days after the Electoral Commission (EC) declared former President John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as the winner of the 2024 presidential elections with 56.55% of the total votes cast.

President Mahama’s victory was confirmed despite results from nine constituencies still outstanding, as their inclusion would not have changed the outcome.

The NPP, which lost both the presidency and its majority in parliament, now controls about 80 of the 276 parliamentary seats.

This marks a significant decline in the party’s political fortunes, leading to calls for introspection within its ranks.