Paul Adom-Otchere, a renowned broadcaster, has said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is lucky to have Dr Mahamudu Bawumia as flagbearer.
According to Paul Adom-Otchere, the NPP is lucky to have Bawumia at this time, as he can quickly reorganise and unify the party.
He detailed that Ghana’s political history highlights that opposition parties uniting is not as difficult as ruling parties uniting.
Adom-Otchere explained that personal scores and ambitions when a party is in opposition do not disappear, but they are often subdued until political power is regained.
He stressed that Dr Bawumia’s temperament and political style will enhance internal reconciliation.
Paul Adom-Otchere recounted how Richard Anane opposed Nana Akufo-Addo but openly supported Dr Bawumia, adding that cross-factional support stretches back to the era of John Kufuor.
Speaking on The Big Issue on Saturday, February 14, Mr Adom-Otchere explained, “If you study a little bit of the political history of this country, the opposition parties uniting is not as difficult as the ruling parties uniting. In opposition, people sort of have their eyes cleared. Their desire is simply to win power, and that desire usually takes over people’s personal ambitions,” he said.
“So the NPP is lucky to have a person at this time who is able to quickly reorganise that,” he concluded.
Meanwhile, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has shared how he handled personal attacks during the NPP primaries.
According to Dr Bawumia, despite the vicious attacks he endured during the NPP primaries, his patience, good character, and belief in God ensured that he overcame the situation.
Speaking at the NPP’s Muslim thanksgiving prayers held at the National Mosque in Accra, Dr Bawumia revealed, “We have been through a gruelling election cycle. One that has the potential to have caused wounds and strained relationships. Elections can leave scars that may not show on the surface but can sometimes cut deeply.
Throughout this campaign, I have listened to my own party members insult me, I have listened to them tell lies about my family and me, I have listened to them say hurtful and unprintable things about me, all in the quest to bring me down and achieve their ambitions or the ambitions of those they supported”, Dr Bawumia added.
He added, “It was a storm of lies and vilification against my family and me. There was tribal and religious bigotry directed towards me. But I smiled through the storm because I knew Allah knows the truth and will not forsake me.”
Dr Bawumia explained that in the midst of the attacks, he took inspiration from the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, which ‘”advised that we should respond to false accusations with patience, good character and trust in God” rather than “retaliation or harshness”.
The NPP flagbearer added, “It is in following His teachings that I chose not to respond to all the lies and insults. Thankfully, God’s mighty will was shown on January 31st 2026, when He rewarded me with a stunning victory at the primaries.”
“I was so happy with the overwhelming nature of the victory because it showed very clearly that the NPP is not a tribal party, and it also showed clearly that the NPP is not a religiously bigoted party.
“The delegates showed that our party votes on the basis of competence, capability, vision, character, humility, integrity and tolerance and not on the basis of tribe or religion,” he noted.