Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has told the NPP youth wing to prepare for leadership as the party work to regain power in 2028.
According to Dr Bawumia, they want their youth wing to take up key leadership positions.
Speaking at a meeting with student leaders ahead of a three-day boot camp organised by the NPP, Dr Bawumia stated, “I want you to be assured that this training program is for your benefit because we want the youth to take key leadership positions”.
“And we cannot get you into key leadership positions if we don’t prepare you for the uptake of these leadership positions,” he added.
The former Vice President expressed confidence that the NPP could return to government in 2028.
He stated, “2028, Inshallah, it is going to happen in 2028. It is possible. It is possible. And we are going to work towards it”.
“We are not going to sit down and say it will happen, but we are going to work,” he said.
Dr Bawumia added, “The youth will take over the key positions as we move forward in this country. You know that the vote is largely youth-dominated. 2028, as it was in 2024, will be a youth-dominated election”.
The NPP presidential candidate further announced plans to increase the party’s engagement with the Tertiary Students Confederacy of the New Patriotic Party (TESCON).
Dr Bawumia disclosed that he will visit several campuses in the coming years to present the NPP’s ideas and vision.
He added, “We will take the debate, the ideas to the country, and we will make our case”.
“We are, however, saying that we will not be intimidated. You can arrest all of us. We will come back and make our case to the people of Ghana,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Dr Jonathan Asante Otchere, a Political analyst, has labelled the NPP’s flagbearer, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s decision to appoint his rivals in the New Patriotic Party’s flagbearership race to co-chair key policy committees as a massive stroke.
The Political analyst highlighted that if Bawumia’s colleagues have accepted these appointments, it is a massive stroke.
He argued that once Bawumia have been able to get them on board, their grassroots support will definitely be on his side.
According to Dr Jonathan Asante Otchere, Dr Bawumia’s decision is good for the optics.
Speaking on Citi FM’s News Digest on Saturday, May 9, Dr Jonathan Asante Otchere stated, “It is quite strategic. If only these colleagues have accepted these appointments, I think it is a massive stroke. Once you have been able to get them on board, their grassroots support will definitely be on his side”.
“It is good for the optics. The optics is that it creates a semblance of unity,” he stated.
His remarks follow, the NPP flagbearer who has appointed all four of his former rivals in the party’s presidential primaries as co-chairmen of newly established NPP policy committees.
According to reports, the NPP policy committees will work to establish a data-driven policy committee framework within the party.
The NPP Policy Committee will be chaired by Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, who seeks to generate credible, evidence-based alternative policy recommendations across critical sectors of Ghana’s economy and governance.
“Dr Bawumia appoints all four former presidential aspirants who contested against him as co-chairs of @NPP_GH Policy Committees.
1. Co-Chair of Employment and Jobs Policy Committee — Hon. Kennedy Agyapong.
2. Co-Chair of Defence and Interior Policy Committee — Hon. Dr Bryan Acheampong.
3. Co-Chair of Education Policy Committee — Hon. Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum
4. Co-Chair of Housing and Urban Development Policy Committee — Ing. Kwabena Agyei Agyapong”