A stalwart of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Richard Baah Amoako, has said the NPP’s 2024 presidential candidate was not supposed to be at the forefront of the elections.
Instead of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who is the Vice President leading the party, Dr. Baah Amoako thinks Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen should have taken that role.
According to him, the NPP government did a lot of bad things, especially misappropriating state funds, which they needed someone to cover their tracks for.
He asserts the administration was convinced that Alan Kyerematen couldn’t have done that for them well, the reason they pushed him off for Dr. Bawumia to take his role.
Speaking on TV3’s extensive coverage of Ghana Decides 2024, the senior Political Science lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), noted that although Bawumia is one of those at the front of the party, he is not supposed to be at the forefront.
“…then, because they’ve done all these bad things they wanted to cover their backs, and who is going to do it for them? Bawumia. People know that. Bawumia, I said it several times, they want him to cover their tracks for them. It wasn’t him who was supposed to come to the forefront.
“He is one of those who was at the front but he wasn’t the forefront. It was Alan who was supposed to come to the forefront. And yet because they did not trust Alan to cover their backs for them completely, they opted for Bawumia,” he stated.
The political scientist’s comments follow the abysmal performance of the NPP in the 2024 general elections held Saturday, December 07, 2024.
John Dramani Mahama, after Saturday’s election secured 6,328,397 votes constituting 56.55% of the total valid votes cast across the country in all 16 regions.
Contested by 12 presidential candidates including some who contested as independent, his main contender, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who is also the Vice President, managed 41.61% with 4,657,304 of the polls.
According to the EC, results of nine (9) constituencies as at the time of the declaration of the results had not been added due to some challenges, adding that if all the votes were added to the candidate who placed second, it would still not change the winner of the exercise.
Also, 239,109 ballots were rejected out of the total valid votes.
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