Vice President and a presidential aspirant of the New Patriotic Party(NPP) Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has expressed discomfort with how his contenders are spreading false information about him to delegates and the public.
Dr. Bawumia added that the spreading of lies about his personality has been the norm among his contenders, but he is not distracted from the task ahead on November 4 and the major election in 2024.
According to the vice president, his contenders are fabricating false information about his personality because they are afraid of losing in the presidential primaries because they flopped in the super delegates as well.
“Unfortunately, the way the results of the super delegates came, many of our opponents are confused and they are seeing looming defeat on Nov 4 and because of that, they have decided to adopt some new tactics the new tactics are what? They have decided to spread lies and to bring disunity amongst us and to create problems between chairmen and constituency executives and the polling station executives and electoral area coordinators,” he told delegates in the Tatale-Sanguli Constituency”.
Although many NPP parliamentarians have endorsed Dr. Bawumia as the best candidate that lead the party to break the ‘8’ in 2024, there have been some politicians who have opined that Bawumia will cause the downfall of the NPP in the major election.
Former Minister for Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng in an interview on TV3 opined that with Bawumia being the flagbearer of the NPP, the party will not be able to retain power in 2024.
“Lots of pronouncements that he made in the past, his enemies will only have to play that back and then we’ll see…so it’s going to be more difficult for the party” he noted.
Having chosen silence all throughout the campaign, the Vice President believes “…they want to knock our heads together so they have come with different lies.”
“I’m hearing a lie every day as I am sitting down and watching what they are saying,” Dr Bawumia said.
“They say I have given all Constituency Chairmen, 275 Constituency Chairmen a GHC100,000 and a pick-up. Have you seen any pick-up here for your chairman? This is just a ridiculous lie” he told the supporters who cheered him on” she added.
Speaking on the allegation of advocating for sitting MPs to contest their primaries unopposed, Dr Bawumia said “Their tactics is that if you miss the ball, don’t miss the man, but as for this they will miss the man because we will not allow their lies to take root”.
The other three flagbearer aspirants participating in the presidential primaries on November 4 are the MP for Assin Central in the Central region, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, former Minister of Food and Agriculture Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, and former MP for Mampong Asante, Francis Addai-Nimo.