Dr Bryan Acheampong, an aspiring New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, has ripped Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s performance in the 2024 elections into shreds.
According to Bryan Acheampong, Dr Bawumia was marketed by the NPP for sixteen years but failed in the market with only securing 41 per cent in the 2024 election.
Dr Bryan Acheampong further highlighted that Dr Bawumia has reached his electoral ceiling, which is 41 per cent.
He described Dr Bawumia as the most marketed NPP candidate, highlighting that he had spent eight years as Vice President and eight years as running mate.
Speaking on PM Express on Tuesday, Dr Acheampong detailed, “Everything that you have ends at 41%. In the sixteen years that we marketed him, he had 41%. We marketed Akufo-Addo for eight months; he had 49.7%,”
He added that the 2024 election results were devastating, with the NPP failing to win a single constituency in seven regions during the 2024 presidential election.
Dr Bryan Acheampong added, “After all the attributes that you just highlighted, in seven regions, we could not win a single constituency,” he said. He listed Volta, Oti, Upper East, Upper West, Savannah and Bono East. He said, “In the presidential, we could not win one constituency in these regions.”
“When we were supporting him in 2023, one of the beliefs was that if we presented him, he would hold the votes from the northern part of Ghana for us. Five of the regions that we did not win a single constituency, seven, five of them are from the northern half of Ghana,” he said.
Dr Acheampong cited further losses. “We could not win one western region, 17 constituencies, we won one presidential. Those attributes and the results of the elections are the ones that the delegates are passing a verdict on”.
“If we market you for 16 years, and you come out with 41% and we market Akufo-Addo for eight months, and he gets 49.7% then there’s a difference,” he said.
Dr Acheampong explained that “the difference is that the marketing did not yield the sales results,” adding that “people are going to change their product.”
“You’re mixing logic with politics and performance,” he said. He said history is often misunderstood. “It is only logic which will suggest that Adu Boahen went once, Busia went once and won; Kufuor went twice and won; Akufo-Addo went three times and won, and logically, it means that Dr Bawumia will go four times,” he said.
Meanwhile, Kwaku Sintim-Misa (KSM), a Ghanaian satirist and anti-corruption advocate, has said that Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has allowed partisan issues to crowd his intelligence.
According to KSM, Dr Bawumia’s statement about when the fundamentals are weak, the exchange rate will expose you is true, but Dr Bawumia’s statement only implied to the NDC when they were in government, which was wrong.
Speaking on KSM UNFILTERED, hosted by Bridget Otoo, Kwaku Sintim-Misa stated, “We have moved from brawn to brain; it’s all brain work; it’s not about being macho that makes you who you are. The numbers don’t mean anything to me; they can be 76 in parliament, but if you hear the quality of the debate and argument, it will feel like it has an impact on a majority.
It’s time everyone understands that we are moving from brawn to brains. Let us use our brains”.
He added, “My thoughts on Bawumia: he has allowed partisan issues to crowd his own intelligence. The statement he made, which we still laugh at him for, is that when the fundamentals are weak, the exchange rate will expose you; it is true.
His truth was that it was only true when the NDC was in power. But it doesn’t matter who was in power; his truth was that when the NDC was in power, that is when the fundamentals were weak. That is where he got it wrong”.
He further added, “But he has apologies, when asked by Bridget Otoo if he believes Dr Bawumia’s apology, KSM stated, “No, the apology is politics. The NPP needs to shift from brawn to brains”.