A New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate, Dr. Bawumia, has requested that delegates disregard the idea that the party is tribalistic and cast a large number of ballots in support of him in order to “Break the 8” in 2024.
Invoking delegates to rally behind “Team Bawumia” by casting a sizable ballot for him at the party’s congress in November, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia claimed he was the only candidate for president that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) feared to see on the ballot.
Prior to the party’s primary election the following month, Dr. Bawumia made this assertion while speaking to party delegates in Tumu.
“I am the third person from the North to contest the presidential primary of the party, and the support is across the sixteen regions, with everyone supporting Dr. Bawumia, because I have what it takes to win the 2024 elections,” he noted during his address, which was monitored by 1Family Radio.
“We in the NPP are trying to do something that has never happened. We are breaking the eight. When the party opened the nominations, I picked the form so I could break the eight for the New Patriotic Party.’’
“If you look at our party and the antecedents and how we have been maligned, our opponents tell people that we vote on tribal lines.’’
He continued, “On November 4, 2023, we shall send a signal to show them we are not a tribalistic party by sending a message that we are a national party.”
“History tells us that the party doesn’t engage in tribal politics when we are electing leaders, as we are made up of different political groupings from different parts of the country.’’
“The National Liberation Movement from Ashanti, the Northern People’s Party from the North, the Anlo Youth Congress, the Ga People, and the Muslim Association Party came together to form the United Party, which is now the NPP, and that’s our antecedent,” he clarified.
Source: 1Familyradio