Dr. Razak Kojo Opoku, a strategist for the Bryan Acheampong 2028 campaign on the ticket of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), has shared insights into the party’s political history with respect to presidential candidates.

Drawing lessons from past elections, Dr. Opoku recalled that in 2012, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) presented a “new candidate” in John Dramani Mahama, while the NPP fielded an “old candidate,” Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who had previously contested and lost to the late Prof. John Evans Atta Mills in 2008 by a narrow margin of 40,586 votes after a run-off, securing 107 parliamentary seats out of 230.

However, in the 2012 elections, Mahama—running for the first time as Presidential Candidate—defeated Akufo-Addo with a significant margin of 325,863 votes.

According to Dr. Opoku, this historical outcome shows that the issue of “new” versus “old” candidacy is not the decisive factor in winning elections.

“Let’s do our work well as a Party.

2028 has little to do with New-Old Candidacy,” he emphasised in a statement on his Facebook wall.