Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, the majority leader in parliament, has revealed that Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and Alan Kyeremanten shouldn’t be paired together against the former president John Agyekum Kufour’s advice.
The former President allegedly advised against imposing a ticket on the delegates and instead urged him to let the New Patriotic Party’s internal workings take their course.
Speaking in an interview that Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu watched on Kumasi’s Angel FM revealed: “I consulted our party elder Former President Kufuor who I thought he had been president before apart from President Akufo-Addo because I strongly believed that his voice would be needed on that discussion.”
“So I went to him, but he disagreed with me on the matter. He told me the party has its own way of doing things. He said the party believes in competition and contest, which is the voting process and so far it hasn’t brought a bad effect on the party. He told me clearly that, (President Kufuor) he believed we should use that same method because if we go for a different method and there is a problem in the future, you will be the one to blame,” he added.
Even though he disagrees with the former president, Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu told Kwame Tanko, host of the program “Angel in The Morning,” that he had to stop speaking because “he is an elder of the party hence I need to give him the maximum respect”.
The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs has consistently pushed for Vice President Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia and Former Minister of Trade and Industry Mr. John Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen to run for president and vice president of the NPP, respectively, after the 2020 general election.
In the meantime, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has praised his accomplishments within the party and urged delegates to support him for the leadership position in the general elections of 2024.
He claimed that the NDC is wary of him because he stands a good chance of defeating both John Dramani Mahama and them in the election.
Dr. Bawumia stated that the NPP needs to choose a candidate who can end the curse of the eight-year election cycle while addressing NPP delegates in the Tema West constituency of the Greater Accra Region.
The Vice President hinted that he is the presidential candidate that the National Democratic (NDC) and former president John Mahama fear the most in the upcoming 2024 elections.
“They know we will break the 8, and they know that John Mahama cannot take me on in the North, and they know that I will beat him in the North and this is why they don’t want me to be the flagbearer.”
The Vice President declared his intention to advance Ghana after submitting his nomination paperwork in Accra.
