The National Communications Director of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has described Dr. Bawumia’s win margin in the just-ended New Patriotic Party’s presidential primary as embarrassing.
The Vice President won the elections with 61.47% of the total votes, while his close contender, Kennedy Agyapong, secured 37.41%. However according to Sammy Gyamfi, Dr. Bawumia’s win indicates a vote of no confidence, particularly when compared to the number of votes garnered by his closest contender, Kennedy Agyapong.
In a post, the NDC Communications Officer said “It is a big shame that, despite the unprecedented vote-buying and personal phone calls to delegates, a significant number of the NPP delegates totalling 74,236 and constituting a whopping 39% voted against his candidature in the just-ended NPP primary. He was rejected in two regions (Central and Volta regions) and over 50 Constituencies of his party. This makes him the first NPP flag-bearer to be elected by less than 62% of valid votes since the NPP expanded their electoral college in 2010. This is an embarrassing vote of no confidence in his leadership by almost 40% of delegates in his party”.
“This fact becomes apparent when contrasted with the 98.9% of valid votes obtained by H. E John Mahama in the 2023 NDC’s primary and the 78.89% and 94.4% obtained by Candidate Akufo-Addo in the 2010 and 2014 NPP primaries, respectively.
This is the man a paltry 61% of NPP delegates have elected as their flag-bearer for the 2024 election; a man bereft of credibility and vision; a man who has proven time and again to be a pathological liar; a comical character whose campaign to be President is based on his ethnicity and religion and not his competence. This is an embarrassing vote of no confidence in his leadership by almost 40% of delegates in his party”, he emphasized.
Furthermore, Sammy Gyamfi noted that Ghanaians currently are in a total mess. Hopelessness, recklessness, bankruptcy, hardships, corruption, and nepotism define the current state of the nation today. This mess is a product of bad leadership and nothing more.
“What Ghana needs is CHANGE – a message that has even been amplified by leading figures of the NPP such as Kennedy Agyapong, Dr. Arthur Kennedy, Dr. Nyaho Tamakloe, Dr. Amoako Baah, among others.
This change must take the form of a TOTAL RESET and thus can only be brought about by an honest, visionary and experienced leader we can trust; A leader who is tried and tested; a leader who has a track record of taking responsibility for problems and fixing them; A leader who can and will ensure accountability on the part of duty-bearers both past and present. That leader is none other than H.E John Dramani Mahama”.
Dr. Bawumia’s win makes him the non-Akan leader of the NPP in a general election.
