Samuel Abu Jinapor, the Member of Parliament for Damongo and Ranking Member on Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, has revealed that Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and the NPP will put a strong formula to win the confidence of Ghanaians.
According to Abu Jinapor, Dr Bawumia and the NPP will present a compelling policy platform to address key national concerns, like youth unemployment and rising living costs.
The Damongo MP labelled Mahamudu Bawumia as the most prepared and best-suited leader to guide Ghana beyond 2028.
Speaking on The Pulse on JoyNews, Abu Jinapor explained, “By the grace of God, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and the NPP will be putting a strong formula, strategy and blueprint before the Ghanaian people… to ensure that we win the confidence of the Ghanaian people”.
He further disclosed that the NPP elected a solid and a very extraordinary man with experience in Ghanaian politics.
He added, “The NPP elected a very extraordinary man, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, a very solid personality in Ghanaian politics, with a lot of experience, a man of enormous integrity, clarity of thought, and with a clear vision for our country”.
“Dr Mahamudu Bawumia promised and committed to a flat tax rate at the port to ensure that the private sector thrives and that importers are given the opportunity to import with a tax regime which gives them predictability,” he stated.
Abu Jinapor further disclosed that he is proud that the Bawumia’s Domestic Gold Purchase Programme has helped boost Ghana’s gold reserves, which have contributed to currency stability.
He added, “For me, one of the things I am most proud of was the Domestic Gold Purchase Programme. We had such a bad year in 2024. There’s absolutely no two ways about that”.
“We have just begun our reorganisation from the polling station to electoral area, to constituency, to regional, and to national,” he explained.
Abu Jinapor further highlighted the role of Minority in parliament despite their numbers.
He added, “Numbers don’t carry the day. Numbers carry the vote… that doesn’t necessarily mean that you will win the argument. It’s not going to be easy… but we are pulling our weight”.
“We will do even a lot more to hold the government accountable and present an alternative view in parliament. That is what the Ghanaian people need”.
In other news, President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has said Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the former vice president, meant well for the country but had no power and locus under the Akufo-Addo administration.
Franklin Cudjoe recounted two or three transactions that he was privy to that actually made him ask himself what exactly the Vice President of the country does.
Speaking in an interview with Accra-based Starr FM, Franklin Cudjoe highlighted, “Dr Bawumia was a good man and is still a good man. He had no power; he had no locus. I recall that there were two or three transactions that we were privy to that actually made me ask myself what exactly the Vice President of the country does. Does he have power? In any case, it is not just with Ghana; there are other countries.
I wasn’t a bit surprised, but I was a bit worried. I felt that if the vice president could not have his way on a particular issue, like how to ensure that revenues at the port were protected…There was a policy that was being introduced, and we thought that the Vice President was on the right path, but apparently, the other side…I didn’t feel he was respected in that regard. Those decisions came back to bite the government.
We did an undercover job at the port, and we went to him, Mr Vice President, we need you to own this…He called all the guys who mattered at the ports, we met with them, and for three months, all the crazy stuff that goes on at the port was reduced.
I think that the Vice President meant well. I think that his theory of the understanding of economics was going to match reality. Some of the decisions taken by Ken on hindsight, I think he shouldn’t have been the finance minister,” he told Bola Ray on Starr FM in Accra.
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