Senior Advisor to the 2025 Bawumia Campaign, Anthony Abayifaa Karbo, has attributed the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) defeat in the 2024 general elections to the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP), illegal mining (galamsey), and global economic challenges.
Speaking in an interview with Umaru Sanda Amadu on Channel One TV’s Face to Face on Tuesday, January 6, 2026, Mr. Karbo rejected claims that Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia was the wrong candidate for the NPP.
“I’m strongly opposed to that view. If you have done a post-mortem of the 2024 polls across the world, you would have known that all or many incumbent governments that were going for a re-election in that particular year lost and lost heavily,” he said.
He explained that the loss was largely influenced by difficult economic conditions in Ghana and globally.
“We were also reeling under the huge economic problems in Ghana. You recall the DDEP, galamsey, and all these things added to the difficulties we had in the election.
“We cannot run away from that fact. And it doesn’t make the candidate a wrong choice. Ghanaians were tuned off, with all the good ideas we talked about, we didn’t get the attention,” he added.
