Solomon Owusu, a leading member of the Movement for Change, has told the Office of the Special Prosecutor to immediately investigate Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the former vice president and presidential candidate hopeful for the NPP.
According to Solomon Owusu, Bawumia confidently stated he personally donated 300 brand new Navara pick-ups to the NPP ahead of the 2024 elections.
He noted that one brand new Navara pick-up costs $60,000, adding that 300 pick-ups will cost $18 million, which Bawumia claimed he solely donated to the NPP.
Speaking on UTV, Solomon Owusu stated, “I will be going to the OSP to petition him. Bawumia thinks he is campaigning, but it is so dangerous, saying he donated 300 brand new Navara pick-ups, with one costing $60,000.
60,000 times 300, that is $18 million. Bawumia is saying he dashed $18 million, are you not scandalised by it? Are you not scared?”
He added, “Let’s take it as if he has people who donated to him, but under the Political Party Act, if someone gives you a donation, you have to indicate it. We were here, and Bawumia said Mahama went for a Ford, so if we had a vice president during a campaign, and he said he singlehandedly donated 300 pick-ups for the campaign, and we have the Ghana Revenue Authority, OSP, EOCO cannot call and question him, then the country is not worth dying for”.
Solomon Owusu further fired shots at Dr Bawumia following his apology to Ghanaians for the NPP’s performance in government.
The Movement for Change man added, “He is saying that all the sins that occurred under them, when they come back into office, it will not happen again. It has been eight months, going into nine months, after the elections, what have they done that the Ghanaian can see they have regretted their actions?
When the election ended, they decided to campaign for the next election, it had not even been a year yet, and the party was campaigning for Ghanaians to vote for them, saying they had regretted”.
Solomon Owusu further questioned Bawumia why he sees nothing wrong with a regional chairman of the NPP campaigning for him.
Mr Owusu noted, “If you have regretted your action, is Wontumi not leading the campaign as a regional chairman of a party, do you take sides? So if the other candidate wins the election, how are you going to work with them?
If you are a regional Chairman or a Constituency executive, you are there for everyone; you do not take sides. I am very surprised that the candidate he is leading does not find it wrong”.
According to Solomon Owusu, the NPP is just repeating the same mistakes
“They are just repeating the same mistakes. When he got somewhere, he told the people not to use the sins of those around him to vote against him. He knows those around him are sins, plus his could hand him 100 years in opposition.
They have stepped on so many people’s feet, as we speak, they have dug a hole costing $97 million, so how much punishment is for that sin?”, he added.
Solomon Owusu’s remarks come after Dr Bawumia said he has also contributed to the party but does not come out to declare them publicly.
According to Dr Bawumia, in the 2024 elections, he raised an unprecedented amount of money for the NPP in history.
Dr Bawumia further revealed he donated over 300 pick-ups, which are now being used by the NPP in constituencies.
Speaking during a gathering in the Adansi Asokwa constituency on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, Dr Bawumia stated, “I have also helped the party, but I do not come out publicly to state them. In the 2024 election, the amount of money I raised for the NPP was unprecedented in the history of the party.
It has never happened before, the pickups that I donated to constituencies over various regions, over 300 pick-ups that are now even being used in the constituencies”.
Bawumia also rendered an unqualified apology to Ghanaians for the way they led and governed the country.
The former NPP presidential candidate stated, “After the 2024 elections, we have done our research. We know the NPP government and the party made a lot of mistakes in governance. There were things we needed to do which we didn’t, and others we did that, if we had had the benefit of background, we would not have done them”.
“We are all to be blamed – Vice President, Ministers, MPs, Board Chairmen, appointees. We have all made mistakes, and please forgive us. We’re sorry. We have learned our lessons”.
Bawumia further pledged, “If, by the grace of God, you make me the flagbearer and I become the President, these will not happen again. They will not happen again”.
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— UTV Ghana (@utvghana) September 15, 2025