Tough decisions affected NPP in the 2020 elections - Oppong Nkrumah The Government says its resolve to clamp down on illegal small-scale mining and pursue financial clean-up exercise invariably affected the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) vote margin in the just ended Presidential and Parliamentary elections. Responding to a question on whether the government was surprised about the slim margin between President Akufo-Addo and Former President Mahama at a media conference in Accra, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said the government's decision to halt and properly regulate illegal small-scale mining and the clean-up of the banking sector indeed, affected the NPP in this year's polls.