Appointees of President Akufo-Addo keep falling in line to foist Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as the party’s next flagbearer for the 2024 elections.
The Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum has followed in the footsteps of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu and others to push the Bawumia agenda that threatens to tear the ruling party apart because Bawumia is viewed as a mere stooge being propped as a mindless puppet of President Akufo Addo.
The Minister of Education made his pro-Bawumia stance public at a ceremony to cut sod for the commencement of Phase 1 of the 32 state-of-the-art Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) Centres in Abrankese on Monday, June 6, 2022.
“Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is someone who has shown loyalty and commitment to the President and the New Patriotic Party. He has served Africa and Ghana well and shown that he is a competent and visionary leader,” Adutwum said in his nuanced endorsement of Dr. Bawumia.
Dr. Adutwum who is also MP for Bosomtwe then wished God’s blessings upon him and promised to throw his weight behind him in the fullness of time.
“My only wish is that God grants him his heart desires and when it is time, myself, Nananom (chiefs) and the Bosomtwe constituency will support him to realise that dream. He is a good man and we will support him to succeed and achieve whatever that it is on his heart,” Adutwum said.
The behavior of Dr. Adutwum will come as a deliberate provocation to pro-Alan Kyeremanteng members of the NPP who have not been openly campaigning or endorsing him because of a party directive that such endorsements and campaigns should cease.
The claim that Bawumia is a loyalist to the NPP appears to be a shadow boxing punch directed at the pro-Alan faction in the NPP who have questioned Bawumia’s roots in the NPP.
Meanwhile, Dr. Adutwum is still the main person of interest in what appears to be a US$1.2million scam that he tried to pull on the World Bank through a phantom teachers’ training program.