Former MP for Kwadaso Constituency, Hon. Samiu Kwadwo Nuamah said there was no way the New Patriotic Party (NPP) would risk its chances of winning the 2024 election by choosing a local from the North as its presidential candidate.
According to this former NPP MP, during the first term of the NPP government, a survey was conducted that showed the party would win more seats to bring the total number of seats in parliament to 200 or more.
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Therefore, the management decided that, for the first time and considering the team’s performance, they should try a Northerner as a standard-bearer for which Dr. Bawumia was the right choice.
Therefore, on the basis of this research, the party has decided to rate someone from the north who will lead the party in the 2024 election, he revealed.
“So we decide that, well if we can get 200 seats then we should try a candidate from the north because the risk of losing an election with such record was very low. But for where we have gotten to, there is no room for any risk taking. There is no room for try your luck. At this time, it is your best players. You should use someone who is proven and tested. But if we say we are going to take a risk of trying what we have never done before, then ……” Hon Kwadwo Nuamah told Kwame Tanko MyNewsGH.com. quotes the former NPP MP as saying.
According to him, if at the historical moment of the party under Akufo-Addo, they lost many seats in parliament, then they are working hard and implementing policies like Free SHS, 1D 1F, one village , a dam, growing crops for food and food. the jobs that make NABCO and all that, their seats down from 169 to 137, need a rethink.
“When you compare it to this time where things are not too good, this hardship, then how many are we going to get if you are presenting the same team, the same thing”, he wondered.
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He described the NPP’s selection of Vice President Dr Bawumia as their presidential candidate as an extremely difficult thing to do if they want to break eight.
“It is clear that this is extremely difficult at this time. That is if we want to break the eight we need to do something different. We can’t continue like that”, he emphasized.
He bluntly said that the argument that if the party did not choose the vice president it would lose in the north did not hold because the other 1% of the population of the Ashanti region would nullify the NPP with more than 20% of the vote in the north.
