President John Dramani Mahama has opined that Nana Akufo-Addo’s running mate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia will never be given the opportunity to lead the party "should anything happen".
"Let anything happen today and let our brother Bawumia say he is standing for president in NPP. They will never give it to him, I can assure you..." he indicated.
Addressing party supporters in Lawra as part of his campaign tour of the Upper West Region, President Mahama said: “Alhaji Aliu Mahama was vice president under the NPP government. He served faithfully under President Kufuor and, so, when eight years was up and President Kufuor was leaving, the natural order of succession is that he should have been given the opportunity to lead that party, but 17 people contested him and defeated him and that is why I say NDC is a party of opportunity because if NDC wasn’t, who am I? A boy from Bole born in Damango, who am I to stand here and call myself president of the Republic of Ghana?”
“Sometimes I feel sad when I see some of our northern brothers running around and also doing this. … They will use you and dump you. I want to live and see the day. Let anything happen today and let our brother Bawumia say he is standing for president in NPP. They will never give it to him, I can assure you. When the misfortune hit us and our father Professor Mills passed away, the constitution said the vice president should take over, I did. But then we were close to an election. If it was another party, they would have insisted that there should be a congress and in that congress I would have been contested and they would have given the leadership to somebody else,” the President added.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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Resident koraa Ben in? When u contested for flagbearership in your own party unopposed, u only got 64% ..... Not even 70 percent and u are there poking your nose in other pples business.
Mahama you are so ***barred word***. Is this a compaign message? That's why you are losing this election slowly. ***barred word***!!!
Man is definitely Not God
Has Mahama ever contested elections in NDC? Default president even my 8 months old baby will be allowed to succeed a dead sitting president. Do u think if it wasn't by LAW Mahama will lead the NDC? Aliyah Maham's case is VERY different. Even as a by-force president his popularity in the NDC is feeble. Bawuimia will contest for the presidency, dat is the only way to elect a qualified candidate Not a DU.MMY like U Mr President.
does the NPP appoints presidential candidates or elects? npp as a party is governed by a constitution not by mahama's s e n se less emotions. i hope ndc dont kill Amissah Arthur to deny him of becoming a presidential candidate in 2020
Mahama's desperacy is all over in his utterances. I'm totally shocked this would come from a sitting president. Sounds like a serial caller. Too bad. Mahama never even deserved to be president in the 1st place cos clearly,he had not learnt to move away from petty politics. Smh.
Mahama is a disgrace. This is sad a comment coming from a whole president is shameful. Desperate man. No wonder you killed your boss Atta Mills to be president. Who killed Limann. FUOULISH PRESIDENT.
The way they are calling the president Otani ***barred word*** is the same way they will call Bawumiah after Nana's defeat in December, they will put all the blame on him. Watch out!
Bawumiah is just a tool, he knows already, that is why he is trying to be the vice president at all cost before Nana is gone. This is his last chance in NPP.
Even a child in Ghana knows Bawumiah is being used and will soon be dumped, that is the truth so what the president said is not new.