About one hundred and eighteen (118) New Patriotic Party (NPP) 2024 Parliamentary candidates have endorsed the former vice president and presidential candidate hopeful, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
The NPP 2024 Parliamentary candidates held a press conference to declare their unwavering support for Dr Bawumia as the best candidate to lead the party in the 2028 elections.
They also called on delegates to vote for him in the party’s upcoming primaries on January 31.
According to the 118 Parliamentary candidates, Dr Bawumia is the most prepared and winnable candidate to lead the NPP in the 2028 election.
Andrew Egyapa Mercer, a former Member of Parliament for Sekondi, speaking on behalf of the group, stated, “We have followed the campaigns of all these fine gentlemen of our party, some of whom have chalked up immense successes in business, governance and the policy space.
“However, when all the key parameters required for leading our great party into the 2028 election are taken together, we are convinced that none of them match up to the pedigree, experience, competence, vision, bold ideas, humility and compassion that Dr Bawumia embodies today,” he said.
Egyapa Mercer described Dr Bawumia as the party’s most prepared, formidable and winnable candidate.
He added, “Whether we have sought our constituencies’ opinion in the yet-to-be-organised parliamentary primaries or not is immaterial. Our personal ambitions have no bearing whatsoever on our collective resolve to support Dr Bawumia”.
Meanwhile, Solomon Owusu, the Director of Communications for the United Party, has told Bawumia’s camp that they can market pork to the Muslim community for 100 years and still they not have buyers.
Speaking on Joy Prime, Solomon Owusu asserted that Dr Bawumia’s camp keeps claiming he is the most marketed person in the NPP, so he must be retained as flagbearer.
Solomon Owusu stated, “I hear my brothers, especially from the Bawumia camp, have been marketed. You could be a pork, this illustration my brother Ebo Buckman always uses, it is real, it is a living example.
You could be marketing pork in the Zongos or the Muslim community for 100 years, and you will still not have buyers. The fact that you are consistently sending pork to the muslim community does not mean… who is going to change”.
Solomon Owusu highlighted that Bawumia promised to stabilise and to make Ghanaians ‘ lives better, but failed.
He added, “No wind will blow when they remember what pork has done to them, when they remember that this was the same man who told us that when the fundamentals are weak, the exchange rate will expose them and that he was coming to stabilise our economy and make Ghanaians live a better life”.
He further criticised Dr Bawumia over the cedi skyrocketing under the former NPP government and his introduction of the digital address system which he claims no one uses.
“He came, and the cedi skyrocketed to 17 cedis to a dollar, and he is the person that you are bringing to us? He brought a digital address system before he brought that, and took us 5 million dollars we had Google in this country. Everybody uses Google, that Ghana post whatever. Have you been using it?”, Solomon Owusu quizzed.
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A group of Parliamentary candidates from the NPP, who contested in the 2024 elections, has held a press conference to declare their unwavering support for Dr. Bawumia as the best candidate to lead the party in the 2028 elections.
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