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National Organizer of the NDC, Kofi Adams has gone through the list of possibilities to explain why President Mahama could not meet the 100% target.

According to him it is possible that those who voted 'No' are not real members of the NDC as it was earlier reported that some people belonging to the opposition NPP had joined purposely to vote against President Mahama.

In the just ended Presidential and Parliamentary Primaries, President John Mahama who went unopposed secured 1,199, 118 'Yes' votes representing 95.10 per cent from party members.

Out of a total of 1, 286, 728 party members who cast their votes, 61,836 voted 'No' in relation to President Mahama’s candidature in 265 out of 275 constituencies. The 'No' votes represented 4.90 per cent of a total 1, 260, 954 valid votes cast and rejected ballots representing 2 percent were 25,774.

Still exploring on his thoughts, Kofi Adams on Okay Fm’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show said the delegates possibly voted 'No' due to “lack of understanding of how 'Yes' and 'No' elections are conducted”.

“Some of them don’t know how to vote and to some of them, it could just mean that they cannot read the difference between a Yes or No and again some deliberately voted that way. It is also possible that those who voted are not members of NDC because we announced before the primaries that some NPP members joined to vote against President Mahama and it is possible they were still there after the clean up,” he asserted.

Justifying the outcome of the Presidential Primary, Kofi Adams found solace in the fact that the NDC voting was not discriminatory to include only the educated as the expansion of the electorate college gave equal right to both those who can read and write and those who cannot.

Assessing the general performance of his party in the November 21, 2015 voting, Kofi Adams scored his party excellent based on the level of enthusiasm and the party support and the conduct of those aspirants who won at the various constituencies.

He again applauded the role of the Electoral Commission officers who conducted the elections in the 265 constituencies as well as the performance of the security services and journalists who carried the news throughout the country.