The Finder newspaper, Elvis Darko, believes Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is the best chance the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has of winning the 2024 elections.
Mr. Darko stated on Prime Morning on Wednesday, January 11th, 2022, that Bawumia is the best candidate the NPP can field because he was at the forefront of the party’s electoral successes in 2016 and 2020.
Darko attributed the NPP’s strong gains in Northern Ghana to Dr. Bawumia, saying that as Vice President and an economist, he knows more about the economy than anyone else in the NPP Presidential primary.
“NPP’s best chance is Dr. Bawumia because he is the Vice President and if every candidate that is coming is going to run on the record of the NPP, who is the best person to run on that record? It’s the Vice President because he has been involved in the state of affairs. He is the one that has done all this that the party is going to run on in the 2024 election,” he said.
He added that the NPP must overcome the perception that it is a tribalist party because it always fields an Akan candidate, saying, “They’re on the wrong path.”
Darko continued by stating that Bawumia’s accomplishments make him the ideal candidate to change people’s perceptions of the NPP.
The Finder Editor went on to say that because no Muslim has ever been elected President of Ghana, the NPP stands to gain significant Islamic support if they are brave enough to name Dr. Bawumia as their flagbearer.
Later this year, the ruling party will choose its flagbearer from a field that includes Bawumia, former Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen, and brash Assin Central Member of Parliament Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, among others.
