Apart from the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, every other electoral poll conducted in the country is not credible, founder and leader of Ghana Union Movement (GUM), Christian Kwabena Andrews, also known as ‘Kyiri Abosom’, has asserted.
He believes many of such polls are conducted to provide false hopes for some people, adding that some of the surveys are sponsored by some political parties.
Several research polls have come out in the lead up to the 2024 elections, flipping the Movement for Change’s Alan Kyerematen and The New Force’s Nana Kwame Bediako in third place after the two major political parties –the New Patriotic Party (NPP) the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Kyiri Abosom’s GUM, which came third in the last election has not appeared in any of the polls making people question his popularity heading into the December 2024 elections.
When OnuaOnline questioned his chances in the upcoming elections in an exclusive interview Wednesday, August 21, 2024, considering the fact that none of the polls, both locally and internationally, mentioned him, he noted that all the surveys are fake.
According to the politician cum pastor, it is the will of God that will prevail after the election and not man. He added that his omission from all the polls conducted so far are deliberate.
The reason, he added, that makes the University of Ghana’s genuine is that, the results of their survey manifested just as they predicted in the 2020 elections, placing him behind the NPP and NDC respectively.
“They did not include my name in the opinion polls that they are having because they are not accurate people and I’m saying they are not God too. They are not accurate because they are not on the grounds. They are sitting on social media and saying whatever they want to say but the election is not on social media, it is on the grounds.
“They are not credible. Some are being influenced by other parties. Some are being done by some group of people that they want to put that across in order to deceive people or maybe just give false hopes but that cannot affect the election results,” he averred.
Juxtaposing this year’s electioneering period with that of 2020, he held that the Covid-19 pandemic at the time hampered his door-to-door campaign, limiting his ability to meet certain core people and other places he had on his plan.
However, without any obstacles in this year’s edition, Kyiri Abosom says he is reaching out to a lot of people on the grounds and will surely come out of the polls victorious.
“In the 2020 election, I decided to move from chief to chief, town to town but because of COVID-19, I couldn’t do that but with that very little effort, I was able to place third. But now I’m on the grounds so they will come to realize that they were rather deceiving themselves, they were tickling their own armpits and laugh,” he stated, adding that “we are coming to power and they will be shocked.”
Ghana heads to the polls on December 07, 2024, elect a President and Members of Parliament from 275 constituencies. The contest, since the inception of the Fourth Republic in 1992, has been a battle between the NPP and NDC.
Some polls that have been conducted by some research firms so far indicate that former Trade and Industry Minister, Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen, will be contesting as an independent candidate, as well as Nana Kwame Bediako, representing the New Force.
