{"id":277499,"date":"2016-12-17T15:08:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T15:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=277499"},"modified":"2016-12-17T15:08:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T15:08:44","slug":"we-saw-ndcs-defeat-ahead-of-polls-imani-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/we-saw-ndcs-defeat-ahead-of-polls-imani-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"We saw NDC\u2019s defeat ahead of polls \u2013IMANI Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"
Policy think tank, IMANI Ghana, says\u00a0it conducted a survey which predicted the National Democratic Congress\u2019 defeat in the general elections ahead of the polls.<\/p>\n
The NDC’s defeat in the recently held general elections saw incumbent President, John Mahama’s ambition to serve a second term quashed.<\/p>\n
The Presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo-Addo, defeated President Mahama with a 53.85 percent, against the latter\u2019s 44.40 percent, one of the worst defeats recorded by a sitting President.<\/p>\n
The NDC\u2019s defeat has sent shock waves through the rank and file of the party, with many blaming the leadership of the party for the loss.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Citi FM\u2019s \u00a0<\/strong>News Analysis Programme, The Big Issue<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>the Executive Director of IMANI Ghana, Frnaklin Cudjoe, said IMANI Ghana’s survey indicated \u00a0that the party will lose the elections.<\/p>\n He however said results of the polls were not published because it was ready only few days to the polls.<\/p>\n \u201cThis election was one that the signs actually had been there from day one. There was a programme IMANI conducted, the pre-election survey and seven out of ten regions suggested that 60 percent of respondents thought that the economy had taken a tail spin and so they were not satisfied. The signs were out there. Infact, we did a poll, but we never published. It was just almost a week to the elections,\u201d he said<\/p>\n