Pollster Ben Ephson says the twice-defeated presidential candidate of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will win the flagbearer slot of his party for the third time, if he decides on March 20, that he will run again.
�It looks like it, especially if he gets more than one person to contest him,� Mr Ephson told XYZ Breakfast Show Host Moro Awudu.
According to him, �one of the basic things in the analysis regarding Nana and the others is that, the support base of the NPP, especially among the Electoral College, is [split between] Nana and those who don�t think he should go again.�
�Nana�s vote, if it�s 30 or 40 percent, is a solid one block. So if those who don�t like Nana to go are sharing 60 or 70 percent, they are cutting it out in pieces, so clearly Nana will win,� Mr Ephson explained.
The Daily Dispatch Managing Editor however noted that: �If there�s one person against Nana�we might have an interesting [election] but if it�s Nana with three or four others, then I think they�d be making it very easy for Nana to win.�
A day after returning from a six-month vacation in the UK, hundreds of youth besieged the former Attorney General�s Nima residence in Accra to clamour that he run again for President.
Nana Akufo-Addo went on a brief political hiatus after Ghana�s Supreme Court shot down his petition against the 2012 presidential election results and upheld President John Mahama�s victory.
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