The Vice President of IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil has argued that, Vice President and flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the recently held 2024 general election, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia would have been a better President for Ghana compared to President-elect, Mr. Dramani Mahama.
Mr. Bentil who before the election was vocal praising Dr. Bawumia as the best person to lead the country as compared to former President insists, he stands on same point because he believes Bawumia has superior ideas.
According to Bentil, his belief is supported by research conducted by IMANI in February 2024, ten months before the December 7 polls.
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“I still believe that Dr Bawumia is the better candidate. He [John Mahama] disagreed with me, but he has won fair and square. I wish President Mahama well. If he succeeds, he succeeds for all of us, but for me, Dr Bawumia was the better candidate” he said on Joy News’ Newsfile on Saturday.
He added, “I took a principled position. What you see here is research we did in February, which showed us that it looked like President Mahama would win, but this was driven by the anger of the Ghanaian people. What I did was to say, ‘Drop your anger and look at the candidates’, and I still believe Dr Bawumia was the better candidate.”
In a related development, Miracles Denis Aboagye, the spokesperson for Dr. Bawumia’s2024 general election campaign has said his boss lost the race due to “victim of circumstances” rather than his own actions.
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“One of the things that are quite clear in these conversations is that everybody seems to sympathize with Dr Mahamudu Bawumia as a candidate who is a victim of circumstances. It’s as if sins were brought upon him, which he had no control over, at a time when he was pursuing his own mission.”
“He has a responsibility at this point to reach out to these people and say, ‘I understand you have punished me for these things, but shall we have a conversation? Shall we talk to see if we can heal these wounds and find a common path forward into the future?.He is essentially being punished for a lot of sins he did not commit”
