Miracles Aboagye was Communications Director of the Bawumia 2024 election campaign
Miracles Aboagye, the former Communications Director of the Bawumia 2024 election campaign, has expressed regret over not ordering New Patriotic Party supporters to storm the various collation centres across the country when supporters of their opponent, the National Democratic Congress, had besieged the centres.
Speaking in an interview on Asempa FM, monitored by GhanaWeb, Aboagye stated that he had no reason to instruct NPP supporters at the time because, during his last press conference, his party was in the lead.
“At the time we held our press conference a little after 12 a.m., the NDC had already held a press conference where their Communications Officer called on NDC supporters to storm the collation centres. In fact, we did not have a scheduled press conference at that time. However, following their press conference, we felt the responsibility to ensure that our supporters did not clash with NDC supporters. If you ask me, that is one of my regrets.
“If I had known that the NDC would go on a rampage in 2024, despite our advancements in democracy—like what they did in Nsawam, Ablekuma North, and many other places across the country—we would not have stopped our people. I regret that decision and apologise.
“If that is the strategy your opponent or enemy in a political battle has chosen, you cannot sit back and allow yourself to be defeated. At the time I was speaking at the press conference that night, we had no indication that we were losing the election because our dashboard clearly showed that we were in the lead. We thought that if we were leading, there was no reason to send our supporters to the collation centres. Even if we were not leading, we did not believe in destroying our democracy by resorting to rampages.
“If I had ordered NPP supporters to also go to the collation centres, I am sure by this time, we wouldn’t have even carried out the handing over.
Election 2024: “We regret restraining our people from matching the NDC hooligans boot for boot.”
– Director Dennis Miracles Aboagye pic.twitter.com/yTTIOIwAQn
— NPP Projects Bureau (@BureauNpp) March 10, 2025
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