Promote me to President, I passed as Vice President – Bawumia urges Ghanaians

Vice President and presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has stated that as Vice President under the Akufo-Addo administration, he initiated and championed a total of 33 cutting-edge policies, whereas his contender, John Dramani Mahama, during his tenure as Vice President and President, cannot boast of a single policy he initiated.

On the strength of this achievement, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia said he has scored 33 as against Mr Mahama’s Zero, signifying a pass for which he believes Ghanaians should promote him to be president of the Republic in the upcoming December 7, 2024, presidential and parliamentary elections.

Dr Bawumia made the assertion when he addressed members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the United Kingdom (UK) at their fundraising dinner dance held at the Landmark London Hotel to raise money among members of the NPP-UK to support the 2024 campaign of Dr Bawumia.

“Most people say I have been the most impactful Vice President in the history of Ghana, and that is based on my performance. If you look at the policies I have initiated and championed in the last 8 years, you can count 33 policies, the Vice President told his audience.

“Can you think of one policy, just one policy that John Mahama has initiated? So, the score between Bawumia and Mahama is 33 for Bawumia and Zero for Mahama.

“So, when it comes to the work of a Vice President, I have passed the exams, so I should be promoted as president of the Republic of Ghana. I should be promoted, and I want you to promote me,” Dr Mahamudu Bawumia further remarked in his address to the NPP faithful in the UK.

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Dr Bawumia, in his address that one of his primary objectives, should he be elected as president by the people of Ghana, will be to seek to promote a mindset of possibilities among the citizenry instead of the attitude of impossibilities that appears to dominate the current way of thinking at various levels in the nation.

The NPP leader reported to the party faithful in London that the first round of his 2024 campaign, which started on 29 April and ended on 12 June 2024, has been largely successful and impactful. He indicated that from July, he will be shifting to the 2nd gear and reach the 3rd and 4th gear by November 2024.

“The campaign has started in earnest. We have done a tour of the 16 regions, and we just finished with Ashanti. I want to thank the Ashanti regional chairman and all the campaign team in Ashanti for the massive show of force that everybody saw when we got there,” Dr Mahamudu Bawumia remarked.

General Secretary of the NPP, Justin Frimpong Koduah, in a brief solidarity message to members of the NPP-UK, said Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and the entire NPP are eternally grateful to the NPP-UK, the premier branch, for its contributions to the success of the NPP as a party over the last 32 years.

He noted that the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections are crucial for the development of the country because the NPP has a candidate who is qualified to run for two terms compared with the NDC candidate, who can only serve in office for one term in the unlikely event that he is elected as president.

“The question is, between a candidate who can run for two terms (8 years) and one who can only run for one term (4 years), who should be given the chance to be president? If we choose Dr Bawumia, he will be forced to deliver because he will have the opportunity to come back to Ghanaians after four years to ask them to renew his mandate,” Justin Frimpong Koduah said.

“The NDC candidate, on the other hand, will not be coming back to Ghana to renew his mandate so he will not be accountable. I urge you all to let your friends and family members back home in Ghana know that there are challenges and that these challenges are global. But with the visionary leader, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, as president, Ghana will get to the promised land,” he added.