Nana Akomea, the director of communications of the Bawumia Campaign Team has said the election of Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia as the presidential candidate of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) was the best thing that ever happened to the party last year.
Bawumia was elected after receiving 61.43% of votes cast by nearly 200,000 NPP delegates nationwide in elections held in November last year.
Speaking on the Asaase Breakfast Show on Monday (15 January), Akomea said choosing Bawumia will neutralise the strongholds of the NDC in the Northern Regions and Zongos.
“I believe that the best thing that happened to the NPP last year was the election of Dr Mahamudu Bawumia as flagbearer,” he said.
“When you look at it objectively, he is the best placed to allow us to retain office, if you look at the branding of the party of the time, it has been branded as a narrow ethic party, and when our opponent goes to the Volta Region that is what they tell them.”
“We believe that with him as a flagbearer, he will be able to neutralise the NDC within the NDC stronghold in the North and Zongos,” Akomea added.
Source: Asaaseradio
