A lecturer at the University of Professional Studies (UPSA) Dr. Kwesi Mensah Mawutor has admonished Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia to forget about the 2024 presidential ticket for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and if possible prepare for a post-politics job as a businessman.
“I pity Dr. Mahamud Bawumia looking at the election ahead. For him to become the flagbearer of the NPP, I doubt it. He should rather reserve some of his cash and after the 2024 elections when they are not in power, he can use it for other business. In fact, he can even set up a pure water factory which will help him and his family a lot.”
Dr. Mawutor made the suggestion on Accra-based Pan African TV.
He points out that when President Akufo-Addo introduced Trade Minister, Alan Kyeremanten and Agric Minister, Dr. Owus Afriyie Akoto, to the Asantehene as the leading wannabe presidential candidates of the NPP, he would have added Dr. Bawumia, whose reported ambition to succeed Akufo-Addo is public knowledge.
According to Dr. Mawutor, President Akufo Addo has realized that Bawumia just does not have the capacity of breaking the historic two-term convention between the two main political parties in Ghana, by winning a third in a row.
“He could have even said that “Nana these are the only two people who want to contest, however, my Vice-president has also shown interest.” But he didn’t do that, and that should tell you that President Akufo Addo has realized that Bawumia can’t even succeed him,” the lecturrer noted.
After President Akufo-Addo introduced Alan Kyeremanten and Dr. Akoto Afriyie to Otumfuor Osei Tutu ll at the Manhyia palace as the leading people to contest for the 2024 flagbearership of the NPP recently, the public has noticed that the President excluded Vice President Bawumia’s name.
The exclusion has since sparked speculation that Akufo-Addo may have probably dumped his Vice President who has been speculated to be the protege of the President and that he was being groomed as a successor to Akufo Addo.