A pro- NPP Youth group has called on Ghana’s Vice President HE Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to avoid tribal bigotry and abuse of incumbency ahead of the party’s expected showdown for flagbearer next year.
The group, identified as Zongo For 2024, descended on the power-seeking Veep to be decorous in his pseudo campaign in the supreme interest of the party.
At a Press conference staged in Accra on Wednesday, October 11, 2022, the group itemized three areas abused by the Veep in the build up to the internal contest and called on the leadership of the party to assert thier authority and whip the Veep into line.
According to the group, HE Dr Mahamudu Bawumia met some party executives in Kaliba during his tour of the Northern Region in a pseudo campaign for his Presidential dreams where thumped up reasons why he should be the voted for.
“HE the Vice President is on a tour to play on the emotions and sensibilities of the delegates using tribal bigotry, regional and religious sentiments to drive home his campaign message. This old and outdated concept , which is aimed at winning the sympathy of the Northern delegates to vote for him in the upcoming internal exercise to choose a flag bearer could prove fatal if the other tribes choose to go tribal “, part of the press statement reads.
The pressure group also called on the leadership of the party not to dance to the tune of the Veep if they have the party at heart.
With less than one year to the internal contest, HE Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and Hon Alan Kyerematen, among others are set to sort it for the next NPP flag bearer in the post Akuffo Addo era.
By : Edward Adams
