More Cars for Bawumia. More Cash for Bawumia.

Cars for Bawumia’s campaign were seen being ferried transparently in a broad daylight and the debate started. The propagandists were the loudest. Some wondered how Bawumia could afford to buy that number of cars. But no politician in this world has ever funded their own campaign single headedly. Even Trump organized fundraising events. Bloomberg joined other democrats to finance Biden’s campaign, he could not do it all alone. So, you see, those propagandists did not make any sense. Anti-Bawumia campaigners within the NPP seized the opportunity to paint Bawumia black and ended up becoming laughingstock. Former minister Catherine Afeku even suggested the cars should have been ferried in the night to hide them from the public, implying that Bawumia’s campaign team is strategically very poor in planning. The Bawumia branded cars we see are not unprecedented and shall not be the last. Let the likes of madam Afeku be educated on how political candidates have been financed and supported in recent Ghanaian political history.

In 2007, Alan Cash’s fundraising dinner yielded 13 billion Cedis at the Accra International Conference Center when close to 800 people filled the venue to its full capacity. Among the donors were party members, corporate organizations, sympathizer and supporters of the man, Alan Kyeremanteng.

Mr. Afoko alone contributed 1 billion Cedis. An undisclosed company also donated 1.5 billion Cedis. Regency Resources Limited donated 750 million Ghana Cedis. There were two other big donations from people who remained anonymous till date. Additionally, small contributions amounted to 10 billion Cedis at a single event. Besides the fundraising event, four people were prepared to pay for the 250 million filling fees for Alan Cash.

In January 2023, the NDC branch chairmen in the Greater Accra Region announced their preparedness to pay Mahama’s filing fees for him if he decided to stand for the party primaries. Again, prior to the 2020 elections, about 94 minority NDC MPs were poised to mobilize about 420 party supporters to contribute 1000 Ghana Cedis each to pay for Mahama’s filing fees.

There are so many examples in Ghana and the world over to prove that the three leading candidates of the impending NPP presidential primaries can have 275 party members buy them pick-up vehicles to run their campaign in each constituency. Isn’t it therefore surprising for people to question the Bawumia branded cars that were seen being ferried to various constituencies?

Bawumia has created more friends and connections for himself as scholar in the UK, the USA and Canada, as a banker in Ghana and in various international assignments, as 2-time vice presidential candidate of NPP, and as the vice president of Ghana to get enough financiers for his campaign so no hasty conclusions.

Eben Johnson - Finland
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