The Crowd. INSET: Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is upbeat about the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) chances of winning the upcoming December 7 general election.
Addressing an enthusiastic crowd at Anloga yesterday, Dr. Bawumia, who is also the ruling NPP presidential candidate in the elections said, “I have been touring over 200 constituencies across the country; I can tell you from what I’m seeing today, I know we are winning this election.”
That, he said, was because not only does the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its presidential candidate, John Mahama not have a message for Ghanaians but they are equally bereft of ideas in solving the issues confronting the nation as compared to the bold solutions he is offering to give Ghanaians when elected president.
That, according to him, was part of reasons why Minority NDC Members of Parliament (MPs) have literally been fighting tooth and nail to become the Majority by default on a silver platter, and not as a result of any election results.
“You can see that the NDC, they are losing this election because we have six weeks to the elections…but today after being a Minority for eight years, they want to be a Majority for six weeks because they know they are losing this election,” was how he put it.
But Dr. Bawumia has assured the rank and file of the NPP that “you will hear by midnight of December 7 that the NPP has won this election. It is going to be clear.”
For him, the upcoming election is about Ghana’s future and for which reason Ghanaians will not trade it for anything less.
He recalled how the opposition NDC’s presidential candidate, former President Mahama and his government cancelled teacher and nursing trainee allowances, and virtually superintended over what has come to be known as ‘dumsor’ (intermittent power cuts) for four years.
He, therefore, could not but ask the ecstatic crowd rhetorically, “Do you want him to come back” to a spontaneous response of a big “no!”
The NPP flagbearer has, therefore, asked Ghanaians to vote wisely on December 7 when the country heads for the polls to elect a President and Members of Parliament to steer the affairs of the nation for the next four years.
By Charles Takyi-Boadu, Anloga