The former vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has expressed his happiness as over sixty NPP members of parliament have endorsed his 2028 flagbearership bid.
Dr Bawumia stated he is so happy that the MPs have shown strong support toward him ahead of the party’s presidential primaries in January 2026.
Reports had earlier revealed that some of the MPs paid a courtesy call to Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, to pledge their support.
The MPs revealed that over sixty out of the NPP’s Eighty-eight MPs have endorsed the former vice president.
Speaking to the media after the close door meeting Dr Bawumia stated, “This morning I had a visit, from our members of parliament, and it was a very happy visit a courtesy call and a call to declare support for me I am so happy for the group that has declared support for me from parliament.
They amount to just over 60 members and you know we have 88 members of parliament, so it is very significant that members of parliament have declared support for me, I just want to use this opportunity to thank all of them”.
Dr Bawumia further added, “I believe this is going to be very important because the members of parliament as you know control the constituencies to a large extent and I am very happy about exactly what they have done today. It is a strong show of support and I thank them and I thank God for this strong show of support. There is a lot of hard work to be done so that we can help the party and help the country”.
The main front runners for the NPP’s flagbearer position are Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, former Assin Central MP Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, former Minister for Agriculture Bryan Acheampong, and former Minister for Education Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum.
Meanwhile, Justin Frimpong Kodua, the General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has rejected claims the party’s presidential primaries are skewed to favour the former vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
Some NPP supporters and bigwigs have raised concerns surrounding the NPP’s presidential primaries.
According to Justin Kodua, he will be very surprised for anyone to think that the election which is yet to be conducted favours a particular candidate.
Speaking in an interview on Channel One TV Justin Kodua detailed, “I will be very surprised for anyone to think that an election that is yet to be conducted will favour a particular candidate.”
“If you have monitored our electoral history even from 1992, 1996 to 2000, at every election — from national through to polling stations — about 70%, sometimes even 80%, of current executives retain their positions,” he explained.
He added, “The fact that you may even start from polling station to national or national to polling station does not make it skewed towards a particular person. There are current executives who will still continue to be executives”.
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