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NPP believes in polls by credible institutions not individuals - Akomea

The Communication Director of the NPP Nana Akomea explained that even though there have been many polls, they only consider what lessons there are in the polls and use them to their advantage.

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This was revealed by the Communications Director of the NPP, Nana Akomea. He mentioned in an interview with Accra-based Class FM that the recognised institutions include the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

“Not at all, in fact, it encourages us. The polls that have been done by institutions, not an individual, institutions like the IEA, like the CDD, like the EIU, those are institutions, not one individual. They all say that we are ahead so if one individual says we are behind, we done have a problem. I would place much weight on an institution than an individual because if the poll is an institution, the likelihood of bias is reduced. A poll done by an institution as against an individual, I will place much weight on a poll done by an institution.”

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He explained further that even though there have been many polls, they only consider what lessons there are in the polls for the NPP and use them to their advantage.

“We take every poll in our stride. OK. Every poll that is made, we just take a look at it, if there’s something in it that makes sense to us, we take it. If there’s something in it that doesn’t make sense, we leave it like that.”

“There have been many polls including polls by CDD, IEA, EIU and all of these polls from credible institutions have reported that Akufo-Addo is way ahead. Even recently there was a poll by the University of Ghana Political Science Students Association or something and they also put Akufo-Addo way ahead. We look at it and if there’s something that we can learn from it, we take it and move ahead. If today Ben Ephson too has done a poll and he is saying Akufo-Addo is behind, we don’t have a problem.”

Pollster Ben Ephson has predicted that President John Dramani Mahama will secure a first round victory in the 2016 elections.

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According to him, his latest poll indicates the National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate will win by 52.4% while the New Patriotic Party’s Nana Akufo-Addo will secure 45.9% with the other parties claiming a meagre 1.7%.

However, the Nana Akomea said the NPP is not perturbed by the recent forecast from Ben Ephson. He said they are rather encouraged to give their all in the last days of the campaign ahead of the polls.

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