Legon Lecturer who projected Akufo-Addo’s Re-election Survey gets Rewarded

Dr. Isaac Owusu Mensah, the senior lecturer at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana who published a dubious election polls results that showed that President Akufo-Addo would be re-elected in the 2020 election, has been given an appointment.

President Akufo-Addo has appointed him as the Director of Research at the Presidency.

Now just a heartbeat away from President Akufo-Addo, the self-styled pollster and political science lecturer replaces the late Victor Newman, who died late last year after a short illness.

Dr. Isaac Owusu Mensah had led the research by some Lecturers at the political science department of the University of Ghana. When the results came out predicting that President Akufo-Addo would win by 51%, the NDC had pooh-poohed it, saying those lecturers were just puppets of the NPP.

The NDC had pointed out that the Lecturers involved in the supposed polls are people who only tend to publish polls that favor the NPP and therefore they were not to be trusted.

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However, Dr. Owusu Mensah and his colleagues had rejected the accusation of partisan bias from the NDC claiming their work was independent and neutral.

However, the new appointment given Dr. Owusu Mensah is now reinforcing suspicions that the controversial poll was a hatchet job that required repayment.

Meanwhile, before his current appointment, Dr. Owusu Mensah had been appointed in December as a member of the ruling NPP’s Committee for Internal Affairs.

The seven-member committee had been sworn in by President Akufo-Addo’s 2020 election campaign manager Mr. Mac Manu at the NPP campaign Headquarters just before the election.

It was after that appointment that he led the polls that claimed Akufo-Addo would be re-elected.