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A Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Democratic Governance, (IDEG) Dr. Kwesi Jonah has stated that Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia can contribute his quota towards Ghana�s socio-economic transformation without necessarily being a Vice President. According to him, the newly outdoored NPP vice-Presidential candidate can equally serve the nation better as a Finance Minister or Economic Adviser to the President. �Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia is a very competent technocrat, very experienced in the area of banking and finance and he has occupied very high responsible positions in Ghana and outside Ghana; but I don�t think that he needs to be a Vice President before he can bring the knowledge and the experience he has to bare on the development of this country.� Dr. Kwesi Jonah took this stand in an exclusive interview with Citi News on the sidelines at a day�s meeting on strengthening the Judiciary to deal with human rights abuses during the December elections. The meeting was held in Accra under the auspices of the Legal Resources centre. He said, �As a finance minister he can do it and even as an economic adviser to the President he can do it so I don�t think that the only time he can bring his knowledge and experience to bare on this country is only when he becomes a vice President,� Adding, �I have a lot of respect for this gentleman but I don�t think he needs to be a vice President before we can get him to help develop this country.� He endorsed the emergence of new political parties as the December elections campaign thickened but kicked against the rumour that the Rawlingses intended forming a new political party. �First of all let me say that his Excellency the former President and his wife are not coming out with a new party, I don�t believe in that rumour, but coming to the substantive point, new parties are springing up because the constitution grants freedom of association.�