Former presidential staffer Dennis Miracles Aboagye has urged Ghanaian voters to make their 2028 electoral decisions based on policies and their everyday needs rather than political party colours and rhetoric.
He said the concerns of ordinary Ghanaians, including access to roads, schools, jobs and improved livelihoods, would ultimately influence how they vote in the next presidential election.
Speaking on Joy News, Mr Aboagye said voters were primarily interested in how political leadership affected their personal and economic circumstances.
“When people are going to vote, they vote for the roads they don’t have. They vote for the schools they don’t have,” he said.
He noted that professionals and workers across the country would similarly assess political candidates based on the policies and programmes they believed could improve their lives.
“The teacher is going to cast his vote based on what he thinks will benefit him. The nurse, the architect, the trotro driver, the taxi driver, all these people, they are going to get up in the morning to go and cast their vote, not because of the colours,” he said.
Mr Aboagye therefore cautioned voters against being distracted by political messaging that does not address the substantive issues confronting the country.
He particularly warned against what he described as attempts by politicians in government to create a “facade” that could shift public attention away from important national concerns.
“And that, for me, is why we should not allow any politician, especially those in government, to create a facade and continuously distract us from paying attention to the issues,” he said.
According to him, a more informed electorate would be better positioned to assess the records, policies and proposals of political parties and presidential candidates ahead of the 2028 polls.
While advocating issue-based voting, Mr Aboagye also expressed strong confidence in the electoral prospects of former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
He argued that if voters carefully assessed the issues and paid attention to the choices before them, Dr Bawumia would be difficult to defeat in the 2028 presidential election.
“I can tell you, if the Ghanaian voter should focus on the issues and pay attention, no politician can beat Dr Mahamudu Bawumia in the 2028 elections,” Mr Aboagye stated.
His comments come as Ghana’s major political parties begin positioning themselves ahead of the 2028 general elections, with economic management, employment, infrastructure and living conditions expected to remain key issues in the electoral debate.
