Reasons Dr. Bawumia must lead the NPP for 2024 Polls 

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H.E Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia

H.E Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia

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As the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government prepares to begin the party’s restructuring and electioneering activities across the country towards the December 2024 elections, a lot of Presidential Candidate aspirants have emerged to take the political leadership from President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

Names of personalities such as the Minister for Trade and Industry Hon. Alan John Kwadzo Kyerematen, the Minister for Food and Agriculture Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, the former Energy Minister Hon. Boakye Agyarko, Former Minister for Railways Development Hon. Joe Ghartey and the Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia have surfaced.

Many camps and bigwigs in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) begin their underground campaigns and recommendations for their preferred candidate towards the party’s Presidential Candidate primaries.

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But, some stuant members of the party who shared their views on the political journey of the emerging aspirants said, the Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia remains the top NPP member for 2024 Polls.

Razak Kojo Opoku, a die hard member of NPP believes that, the writing of the political success story of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo shall be incomplete without the rightful inclusion of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.

In view of this, he said, in order to break the 8 years in office for political parties in the fourth Republic, the Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia remains the preferred candidate for the December 2024 polls.

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In outlining the reasons the Vice President Dr. Bawumia remains tall as the Presidential Candidate of NPP, he said,

1. Dr. Bawumia was selected by Nana Akufo-Addo as his running mate in the 2008 elections, which saw the NPP increases its votes in the 2004 elections, especially in the three Northern regions.

2. Dr. Bawumia was re-nominated as the Vice Presidential Candidate to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for the 2012 General Election in March 2012.

3. however, in the 2016 elections, the NPP emerged victorious with Dr. Bawumia as the running mate and took five parliamentary seats in the Upper West Region for the first time and the Party also increased its presidential votes significantly in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions.

4. He added that, the 2012 Election Petition, 2016 and 2020 electoral victories of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) can never be documented without the recognition of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s enormous contributions.

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5. He believes that, certainly, the 2024 victory for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will be shaken without the ticket of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.

6. Dr. Bawumia has never resigned since joining the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and that is clearly the benchmark of quality leadership, he went through many challenges.

7. Razak Kojo Opoku reiterated that, Dr. Bawumia has never abandon the party after their defeat in 2008 and 2012. He stayed with the party and offered his expertise for 2012 Election Petition, victory 2016 and victory 2020.

“There’s is none in Npp with this set of experiences. If we are serious to break the 8, he is the best person with the requisite experience to win the next elections.” He explained.

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A BRIEF PROFILE OF DR. MAHAMUDU BAWUMIA

Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is an economist and a banker. He was born on October 7, 1963 in Tamale to the late Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia, former Chairman of the Council of State (1992–2000) and Hajia Mariama Bawumia. He was born into a large family and the 12th of his father’s 18 children and the second of his mother’s five children.

His father was a teacher, lawyer and politician and a Mamprugu Royal and Paramount Chief of Kperiga in the Northern Region. Dr Bawumia is married to Samira Ramadan Bawumia, the only daughter of Alhaji Ahmed Ramadan, the former PNC National Chairman with three children.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

He attended the Sakasaka Primary School in Tamale, and gained admission to the Tamale Secondary School in 1975. He was President of the Ghana United Nations Students’ Association (GUNSA) in 1981.

After his second cycle education, he went to the United Kingdom where he studied banking and obtained the Chartered Institute of Bankers Diploma (ACIB). He obtained a First Class Honours Degree in Economics from Buckingham University in 1987.

He then obtained a master’s degree in Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford, and obtained a Ph.D. in Economics at the Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1995. His areas of specialisation include Macroeconomics, International Economics, Development Economics and Monetary Policy. .

WORK EXPERIENCE

From 1988 to 1990, Dr. Bawumia worked as a lecturer in Monetary Economics, and International Finance at the Emile Woolf College of Accountancy in London, England.

He also served as an economist at the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, USA. From 1996 to 2000, he served as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University, Texas, USA, where he also received the Young Researcher Award in 1998.

He returned to Ghana in 2000 to work as an economist at the Bank of Ghana. He rose from Senior Economist to Head of Department, and subsequently as Special Assistant to the Governor of the Bank. In June 2006, President J.A. Kufuor appointed him as a Deputy Governor of the Bank.

POLITICAL CAREER

Dr Bawumia was selected by Nana Akufo-Addo as his running mate in the 2008 elections, which saw the NPP increase its votes in the 2004 elections, especially in the three Northern regions.

Dr Bawumia served as a Consultant to the Economic Commission of Africa from February to March 2009.  From April to October 2009, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia Liu Centre for Global Studies and UBC Fisheries Centre.

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In October 2009, he was appointed as a Fellow of the International Growth Centre (IGC), a research institute based jointly at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Oxford University that provides advice on economic growth to governments of developing countries, specifically serving as an IGC Team Member for Sierra Leone.

He also served as an Advisor to the Central Bank of Sierra Leone on the redesigning of the organisational structure of the Bank and its monetary policy framework. In January 2010, Bawumia was appointed Resident Representative of the African Development Bank for Zimbabwe by the African Development Bank. He served in this position until reappointed as the Vice-Presidential Candidate to Nana Akufo-Addo on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party for the 2012 Presidential Election.

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2012 ELECTIONS

Bawumia was re-nominated as the Vice-Presidential Candidate to Nana Akufo-Addo for the 2012 General Election in March 2012.

The Party won 10 seats in the Northern Region including Yendi, Walewale, Yagaba – Kubore, Bunkpurugu, Bimbilla, Chereponi, Kpandai, Tatale – Sanguli, Tolon and Zabzugu.  It also won the Nabdam and Talensi Constituencies in the Upper East Region although his presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo lost the Presidential Elections to the incumbent John Dramani Mahama.

However, in the 2016 elections, the NPP emerged victorious with Dr Bawumia as the running mate and took five parliamentary seats in the Upper West Region for the first time and the Party also increased its presidential votes significantly in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions.

SOURCE: Coverghana.com.gh

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