Who will take Bawumia seriously as a Presidential candidate for NPP in 2024?

The new Patriotic Party are yet to go to the polls to select its flagbearer for the upcoming 2024 elections in what they consider as a must win election in their quest to break the eight as they have tagged it. Several names have popped up as potential flagbearers of the party. Leading amongst these names are the vice president, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and the minister of trade; Hon Alan Kyeremanteng.

However, former deputy minister of information, Hon. Felix Ofosu Kwakye believes that the vice president will be a bad choice for the NPP. Speaking on JoyNews, he emphasized that flagbearers can only sell to the public their track records and base on their good work, ask the people to give them the mandate. But Dr. Bawumia has failed in this regard by managing the economy poorly. That for him is grounds for Ghanaians to consider him as not serious in his quest to become president. 

“The point is that what he (Bawumia) is noted for or his claim to fame in the past was economic management. He has been so spectacular that he is running away from the very record he has supervised. As head of the Economic Management team, he has supervised the worst economic situation under the 4th Republic.

This will make him completely untenable as a candidate for the NPP. Exactly what is he going to tell the electorate? Who is going to take him seriously after all the falsehoods he peddled have been revealed for what they are, falsehood. The man has not even had the courage to step out there and defend his economic record. He is not a viable candidate.” He said.

He further reiterated that, a campaign against Bawumia will be easy and more convincing based on his records. “All you need to do in a campaign against him is to play his own voice and that finishes the matter. He will be a terrible candidate. He is a poor candidate. The reality shows that Dr Bawumia has no credibility as we speak. Nobody in the Ghanaian space takes him seriously.”

Most Ghanaians share the same view as a random interview of Ghanaians by Popular TV Gh yielded similar results. The New Patriotic Party are yet to go to the polls and maybe this could be a guide for delegates.