Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia Campaign Team’s Director of Communications, Nana Akomea, revealed the benefit of having the Vice President serve as the flagbearer.
According to Nana Akomea, the former deputy governor of the Bank of Ghana is a suitable candidate for the NPP to use in order to shed the label of “Akan Party.”
“You know, the NPP, we’ve always suffered from a certain branding from our opponents. Every election after election, they repeat that branding. And the branding is that: ‘This is an Akan Party. If you are not Akan, you can’t be their leader’. So, in Dr Bawumia, we have a good chance to neutralise the branding of the party”, Nana Akomea explained.
“Now, you have a candidate like Dr Baumia, who would give you a more inclusive branding and would neutralise the NDC’s propaganda”, he noted.
“We have the tool in our hands to change that branding and that is Dr Bawumia”, Nana Akomea reiterated.
He also claimed that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the northern regions would be weakened if the New Patriotic Party chose Dr. Bawumia as its flagbearer.
Dr. Bawumia, according to Nana Akomea, enhanced the NPP’s electoral prospects in the north: “Before he [Bawumia] came, we were not getting those votes”.
“We believe that if we present him as a presidential candidate, he would, of all the candidates, further the weakening of the Northern Region as a major stronghold of the NDC”, Nana Akomea reasoned in an interview with Joy News.
Dr. Bawumia is from the North-East region’s Walewale. He is competing with nine other individuals for the position of NPP flagbearer.
In a related news, NPP will hold a special delegates conference on August 26, 2023 to choose the five candidates who will compete in the presidential primary on November 4, 2023.
According to the game’s rules, the party will hold a special electoral college to choose five candidates for the final round if more than five candidates meet the requirements to run.
