Former Vice President and 2024 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has urged party delegates to retain him as the NPP’s flagbearer, arguing that he remains the party’s best chance of regaining power in 2028.
Speaking to delegates at Adansi Asokwa in the Ashanti Region on Wednesday, September 10, Dr. Bawumia said Ghana’s electoral history proves that consistency in candidate selection pays off.
“In 1996, the NPP presented former President John Agyekum Kufuor, who obtained 39 per cent of the vote. The party presented him again in 2000, and he won,” he stated.
“The late President Prof. John Evans Atta Mills secured 43 per cent in 2000, 44 per cent in 2004, and was presented again in 2008, when he finally won. Former President Akufo-Addo was presented in 2008 and 2012 without success, but when presented again in 2016, he won. President Mahama lost in 2016 and 2020 but was retained in 2024, and he won. This shows clearly that maintaining faith with a candidate pays off.”
Dr. Bawumia stressed that the NPP has already invested heavily in marketing him and that abandoning that momentum for a first-time candidate could jeopardize the party’s chances.
“The trend shows that maintaining faith with a candidate is very beneficial, especially after years of investment in marketing him. I am the most marketed, most prepared, and most winnable candidate among all the aspirants. My character, temperament, and unifying nature are well known,” he declared.
He urged delegates to vote for him in the January 31, 2026, flagbearer elections, insisting that a united NPP led by him would be poised for victory.
Dr. Bawumia’s remarks came at the start of a three-day engagement with constituency executives across the Ashanti Region, which his campaign team says is intended to lay the groundwork for a full-scale national campaign and direct engagement with polling station delegates.
