Former Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) lecturer Dr. Richard Amoako Baah claims that Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia bought his way to victory in the elections for the super delegates.
He claimed that the Vice President’s campaign team was successful in paying voters to support him in the election.
Dr. Amoako Baah asserts that rather than Bawumia’s popularity, financial factors significantly influenced the election’s outcome.
“A lot of people have been paid, including government appointees, party chairmen and MPs. Is that how it is supposed to be? So the thing was skewed and it doesn’t mean he was the most popular, but he was able to pay the money.
“Ten people were going to the election, and only one person had around 70 percent; statistically, it wasn’t normal. There is something wrong,” Amoako Baah said in an interview on Nhyira FM on August 29, 2023.
He added: “So, those who did not have money had to strategize not to put much money into the first election. If Bawumia had around 70 percent, it wasn’t because he was popular; he paid money.”
Bawumia won the August 26 super delegates conference with 629 votes, or 68.15 percent of the total votes cast.
Kennedy Agyapong, a lawmaker from Assin Central, came in second with 132 votes, or 14.30 percent, followed by Alan Kyerematen, with 95 votes, or 10.29 percent.
Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto took fourth place with 36 votes, or 3.90% of the total.
Francis Addai-Nimoh and Boakye Agyarko tied for fifth place with 9 votes each, or 0.98% of the total.
Meanwhile, Kwabena Agyei Agyepong, a former New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate for president, has urged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to reduce the enormous size of his government.
He claimed that fewer Ministers and other appointees will increase government efficiency.
In the NPP’s recently concluded super delegates conference, Kwabena Agyepong, who received six votes, urged Nana Addo and Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to take proactive measures to reduce what he calls “waste in the system.”
He advised the President to cut the coat to fit him in an interview with Accra-based Peace FM.
