Former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Ohene Ntow says the ruling party made a mistake in selecting Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as its presidential candidate ahead of the 2024 presidential elections.
Speaking in an interview on Mpu ne Mpu on UTV, the expelled member from the NPP party asserted that when Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia was brought in, the party claimed he was ‘Economic Messiah’ who was going change things.
However, after 7 years, the Ghana’s economy has worsen over the period to the extent that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has to intervened.
He further explained that even though he’s an NPP member, he wouldn’t hesitate to criticize the party when things go wrong.
According to him, the kind of campaign promises they gave the electorates is not what they are doing now.
NPP made a mistake in choosing Dr. Bawumia as the presidential candidate – Nana Ohene Ntow#UTVGhana pic.twitter.com/8wI39h7gzk
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Following his expulsion the NPP, Nana Ohene Ntow said that he is not shocked nor concerned about being kicked out of the organization.
He claims that because he backed the party’s former flagbearer candidate, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, in his independent presidential bid, this decision was necessary and appropriate under the party’s constitution.
“Well, I feel it is not surprising and neither am I worried in any way because I have been party general secretary before and I know what the party’s constitution says.”
“I have personally not received any letter from anyone, it is a press release that put out there. A radio station called me and that is how I came to know about it,” Nana Ohene Ntow said during an interview on UTV on November 20, 2023.
He stated that he had been shunned for the past 13 years despite being a former scribe.
He claimed that during that time, he had experienced rejection and being treated like an outsider.
