Election 2024: Volta Region Youth Goes Wild for Bawumia – Kofi Tonto
Mr. Tonto emphasized how the NPP's support base in the Volta Region has gradually grown over time
- Kofi Tonto highlights a noticeable increase in NPP's support among the youth in the Volta Region
- Tonto strongly refutes claims that the NPP paid individuals to attend events
- The campaign team has seen a particularly strong turnout among young voters
Kofi Tonto, a political aide to New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has expressed his happiness at the enthusiastic greeting the campaign team received while touring the Volta Region.
Tonto claims that the positive reaction from the populace is evidence of the NPP’s increasing popularity in an area that has historically been a bastion of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Mr. Tonto emphasized how the NPP’s support base in the Volta Region has gradually grown over time, attributing this improvement to Bawumia’s vision and programs.
He explained that the campaign team was welcomed at each location, with people enthusiastically turning out to support them.
Mr. Tonto continued by recounting the campaign team’s journey through other communities, highlighting the spontaneous and genuine nature of the support they received.
Additionally, he claimed that the NDC resorted to desperate measures to prevent people from supporting Bawumia’s campaign, feeling intimidated by the NPP’s growing popularity in the area.
He alleged that the NDC made door-to-door attempts to discourage individuals from meeting the NPP delegation.
“We have been surprised by the reception. If you look at 2020, our voter share was 14 percent, and if you juxtapose that with the current reception, it shows that the NPP is making inroads.
“You are in the Volta Region and see people running out of their houses, shouting ‘It is possible!’ This is an indication of organic support. Everywhere we go, the youth meet us and cheer us on, demonstrating that we are well received. Our intel tells us that the NDC had to go house to house to discourage people from coming out to meet us,” Kofi Tonto said in an interview.
In response to allegations that the NPP had paid people to line the streets and demonstrate their support, Mr. Tonto vehemently denied these claims.
Reports had circulated that individuals were paid as much as GH¢500 each to attend campaign events.
However, Bawumia’s political aide dismissed these allegations as baseless and unrealistic.
“The Volta Region has over one million people. Is the NPP the Bank of Ghana to be giving people GH¢500 to come out and support us? It is Bawumia’s ideas and policies that attract people to him. The youth are drawn to a man with a vision and a clear agenda for them.”
