The flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Celebration (NPP) within the 2024 elections, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has known as for the celebration to stay united in the event that they want to emerge victorious within the 2028 elections.
Talking in the course of the graduation of a thank-you tour, Dr Bawumia, who served for eight years because the Vice President to former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, known as on his former flagbearer rivals to unite with him to guide the celebration ahead.
He mentioned a united NPP can simply win the subsequent Normal elections, but when they’re divided, they may simply lose.
“We’re in a constructing stage,a rebuilding stage for this celebration. What’s essential for all of us is that we’ve to be united. If we’re united, we’re going to win 2028. So unity is essential,” he mentioned.
Bawumia mentioned inter-party preventing within the years to come back will solely harm their mission of making an attempt to construct a celebration that may wrestle again energy from the ruling Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC), including that it will be mindless to battle to win the NPP’s flagbearership solely to lose the final.
“I need unity. And that’s the reason I’ve mentioned that I need to go along with the celebration and in addition to ask my former as contestants, the aspirants who contested me for the primaries. They need to come and we’ll all go…in order that we all of us present a united entrance for the celebration, in order that we will construct on it going ahead,” he mentioned.
“That’s what we ought to be doing. Constructing a celebration equipment to win a normal election, to not win a major. If you happen to win a major and you can not win a normal election, then it’s a ineffective victory. It’s a ineffective victory. It’s a pyrrhic victory,” Bawumia added.
The NPP flagbearer additionally stoked controversy after dismissing claims he misplaced the election because of being a Muslim. In line with him, he carried out much better than many Christian NPP parliamentary candidates of their constituencies, together with the Assin South Member of Parliament, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour.
Regardless of Bawumia’s requires unity, the battle traces for the celebration’s subsequent flagbearer contest have already been drawn, with former Assin Central MP and rich businessman Kennedy Agyapong already commencing his marketing campaign to unseat Bawumia because the flagbearer after shedding their earlier battle.
Agyapong, after returning to Ghana following a brief hiatus overseas, commenced his marketing campaign, sounding bullish in a speech that every one however confirmed he was beginning a 2028 marketing campaign. Famous celebration figures have additionally already began talking about who the celebration must nominate in 2028, indicating the place their loyalties lie. Former Dome Kwabenya MP Sarah Adwoa Safo has indicated she is a follower of Dr Bawumia, whereas former Ghana Gasoline communicator Ernest Owusu Bempah, has thrown his weight behind Kennedy Agyapong, describing Bawumia because the unsuitable candidate for the 2024 elections.