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Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the former Vice President and New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful, has said he would introduce a constituency-based budgeting framework under his leadership.
According to Bawumia, the new proposal will overhaul Ghana’s budgeting system, which will be a more local approach to development financing.
Speaking to some NPP members in the Ashanti Region on Thursday, September 11, 2025, Dr Bawumia explained, “I am bringing a new idea to Ghana. I want to transform our current framework into a constituency-based budgeting framework.
With this, every constituency will be featured in the budget, and the management of that budget will come at the constituency level”.
Dr Bawumia highlighted that the proposed system would ensure development funds and contracts are directly tied to constituencies, which will enhance transparency, accountability, and impact.
“So, when we are awarding a contract, you will know that it is coming straight to your constituency so that you manage it from there. That will help elevate each constituency to drive development for all of us,” Dr. Bawumia asserted.
In related news, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said he has also contributed to the NPP 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”.
Dr Bawumia also fired back at Dr Bryan Acheampong over his performance in Zongo communities during the 2024 elections.
The former vice president dismissed allegations that he performed poorly in Zongo communities, labelling the claims as baseless propaganda.
According to Dr Bawumia, Dr Bryan Acheampong must prove his claims by showing him data to support the assertion that he won in only one Zongo community polling station in the entire country.
He added, “The propaganda out there is that Muslims and the Zongo people did not cast their votes for Dr. Bawumia. When I heard it, I asked, ‘Where is the data to support these claims?’ Because for me, if you tell me something, I need data to prove whether it’s true,”
“Recently, one presidential aspirant claimed that in the Zongos, Dr. Bawumia won only one polling station in the entire country”, he added.
Dr Bawumia further cried out to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegates about party members being arrested by the John Mahama-led NDC government.
According to Dr Bawumia, the NPP needs to unite and regain power in the 2028 elections.
Bawumia added, “We all have seen the things going on. After losing power, the NDC are using power to intimidate us, harass us, and abuse us. In a short period, Chairman Wontumi was arrested, and they have arrested Chairman Abronye; they are arresting our TikTokers, bloggers and appointees. What all this means is that the NPP needs to be united so that in 2028, we will regain power.
Meanwhile, former Minister of Trade, Hon. K. T. Hammond, has thrown jabs at Kennedy Agyapong and Dr Bryan Acheampong following their constant bragging of funding the NPP.
K. T Hammond cautioned NPP presidential aspirants against using their financial contributions to the party as a campaign strategy.
The former lawmaker questioned where these individuals were when the party faced financial challenges in the past, noting that many only began offering support after benefiting from the party’s rise to power.
Speaking during Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s visit to the Adansi Asokwa constituency, K.T. Hammond stated, “If we are going to turn the party into rich versus the poor, we, the poor people, the Abronye party, of which I am a member, we are joining Dr Bawumia.
When we needed money to form the NPP, where were the rich people? When we were looking for money in the 1990s before forming the party, it got to a point for the 2000 election, and we had no money”.
He added, “The stress that we went through to get the NPP to become a winning machine, those making noise about money were nowhere to be found, we struggled for the party, and we are not even making noise.
When you meet those claiming to be rich, ask them, before the NPP won the first election, the men who brought the money, where are they? Today, people use different ways to get money and brag about it. I am part of the Poor People’s Party, Abronye party, and Dr Bawumia is also part of it”.
K. T Hammond, however, commended Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia for quietly and consistently supporting the party financially without seeking praise or political advantage.
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We would have a constituency-based budgeting framework under my leadership.
— The Bawumia Campaign (@BawumiaCampaign) September 11, 2025
—Dr. Bawumia pic.twitter.com/Z4hoL1WZmH