Some polling station executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have accused Members of Parliament of inducing delegates with cash to support the candidature of Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as the party prepares to elect a flagbearer of the 2024 general elections.
According to Frederick Owusu, a spokesman for the polling place administrators, the MPs want to compel the delegates to vote for Dr. Bawumia.
On Thursday, March 16, 2023, Frederick Owusu spoke to the media in Kumasi, “We have observed that some Members of Parliament holding juicy appointments and contracts in the current administration have been moving from funeral to funeral and granting interviews endorsing Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as well as forcing him on the throat of NPP polling station executives to accept him as the 2024 presidential candidate. We want to send a strong signal to those Members of Parliament to desist from such a campaign.
“We, the grassroots and delegates want to send a strong signal to these Members of Parliament to desist from such a campaign. It is believed that the office of the Vice President has promised those MPs huge cash. We are hereby saying that NPP is not for sale.”
Bawumia Must Win (BMW) appears to have been created by some delegates in the Ashanti Region under the direction of Bernard Antwi Bosiako, also known as Chairman Wontumi, the NPP’s Ashanti Regional Chairman.
As delegates anticipate choosing Dr. Bawumia to represent the party as the flagbearer in the general elections of 2024, the new slogan that has been reported to be taking over the elephant fraternity in the area.
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Delegates from the party, including some MPs, Regional and Constituency executives, could be heard taking turns loudly chanting the slogan at a programme organized by Chairman Wontumi to unveil a group aligned to Dr. Bawumia with the goal of canvassing votes for him.
Dr. Bawumia, in the opinion of Chairman Wontumi, is the ideal candidate to aid NPP in keeping the presidency in 2024.
The NPP’s flagbearership race, however, will be a defining moment for the party as it will make or break the party, according to political analysts in Ghana.
Dr. Bawumia, Trade and Industry Minister John Alan Kyerematen, and Assin North Central MP Kennedy Agyapong are the front-runners.
