I am extremely shocked, reading an article published by Ghanaweb, in which Dr. Asah Asante blames Hon. Ken Agyapong for the abysmal performance of the New Patriotic Party in the December polls.

Dr. Asante is a senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the University of Ghana. According to him, Hon. Ken once said that the NPP lost the 2024 elections in 2022. As a result, he should be partly blamed for the defeat the NPP suffered in the 2024 elections. This is quite an unfortunate conclusion. Let me state here unequivocally that the truth Hon. Ken saw and spoke about was what caught up with the NPP in the December elections.

Dr. Asante’s own Department of Political Science carried out a survey on the December elections long before the December polls. Has he bothered to find out what conclusions emerged from that survey? Can he explain to Ghanaians why the results of the survey his own department carried out were never published? Was he aware that the polls were heavily against the NPP?

Was Hon. Ken’s name mentioned in these polls by his own department? Did any poll mention Hon. Ken as an important variable to be considered in the December polls? Did Dr. Asante subject Hon. Ken’s statement that the NPP lost the 2024 elections in 2022 to any scientific analysis before his conclusion?

Some academics have become politicians, and understandably so because man is a political animal. However, the academic in us should be brought to bear in order to enrich our political participation and articulation when discussing and doing politics.

It is disheartening to see academics making political analyses and conducting all kinds of polls, clouded in politics and shrouding their academic capabilities.

As far as the December polls and the NPP defeat are concerned, a thorough, scientific, and unbiased survey is badly needed. Indeed, open-heart surgery is required at the moment to properly diagnose the issues so that the party can take an objective decision regarding the way forward. Until then, I would urge Dr. Asante and his likes to tread cautiously when discussing the defeat of the NPP in the December polls. Otherwise, such unsupported utterances and comments can taint the academic gowns we are clothed in and erode public confidence in us as academics.

As a party, the NPP should look carefully at where it has stumbled and not where it has fallen. For it is common knowledge that where you finally fall is not where you had stumbled.

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