NPP flag bearer race: Aspirants who engage in votes buying have ‘no regard, respect for Ghana’s democracy’ – Prof. Adu Gyamfi

A political Analyst, Professor Samuel Adu Gyamfi has said that presidential aspirants, likewise delegates who engage in votes buying in the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) presidential primary have no reverence for Ghana’s democracy.

He has gone on to say that any aspirant who engages in such act to become forerunner for the party in the upcoming December 2024 elections will not be credible to warrant Ghanaians’ vote to lead the nation from 2025.

According to the first trained Social Historian of Medicine from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), whoever emerges winner of the NPP primary should be someone whom the people deem credible and merits the office, but not someone who has money to buy his way out.

Speaking with Alfred Akrofi Ocansey on TV3’s Ghana Tonight Thursday, November 2, 2023, the Professor intimated that when such acts characterise the process “what it simply means is that, he (aspirant) had no regard and respect for the general democratic credentials of the NPP and Ghana as a country that hopes to build its democratic credentials.

“Any of these actors who decides to buy votes is telling us that he will not be a credible flag bearer and would not be a credible candidate to be voted for and that Ghanaians must sit up for that,” he stressed.

Contesting for the flag bearer slot on Saturday, November 4 are: Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia who has been tipped to win by a bigger margin.

The Vice President is followed by Assin Central lawmaker, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong as the next favourite candidate to win the elections.

The others are former Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto and former Mampong MP, Francis Addai-Nimoh.