The Member of Parliament for Bimbilla and former Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul has said the former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is going to win the NPP’s primaries.
Dominic Nitiwul claimed that the NPP has no time to market a new candidate as the party cannot risk a first timer for the 2028 elections.
He stressed that Dr Bawumia has conviction, experience and precedent on his side.
Speaking on Joy News’ PM Express on Tuesday, Dominic Nitiwul stated, “We have no time to market a new candidate. I can tell you, in this election, Bawumia is going to win,” he said, adding that this conviction is rooted in experience and precedent.
“I can tell you for a fact that in this election [NPP primaries], Bawumia is going to win…just like Akufo-Addo won for a second time in 2010 and then for a third time in 2014, Bawumia is going to win. That is not to take away anything from another candidate, whether it’s Ken, Bryan, Adutwum or Kwabena Agyapong, it’s not to take anything away from that candidate,” he said.
He added, “All I can say is that it has been marketed enough. We don’t have time to market a new candidate. He has shown that he’s very competent, not corrupt, and there’s nothing to find about Bawumia anymore”.
“Whatever the NDC wants to say, they have said it already and the assessment Ghanaians have done it already. We don’t have the time to change all the billboards and change every other thing.”
“Is the one who has given us a clear vision as to what he wants. And the people of Ghana have bought into it. And the rule of thumb is always that Ghanaians have never voted for a first timer,” he said.
Nitiwul further stated, “Bawumia is going to be the candidate who is the second timer; all other candidates on the ballot in 2028, especially the major candidates, including the NDC, will be the second timer.”
“We cannot risk having our own candidate be a first timer. We can’t as an NPP, when you can get somebody who is the second time, and the person will win you the elections, we cannot risk it.”
“And the difficulty for NPP is that we will, we should never lose in 2028 because it will be disastrous for us.”
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”.