Xmas Crowds: Is Dr. Bawumia Deceived or Trying to Deceive?

By Bala Ali
The aspirants of the presidential primaries of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) are becoming more serious with their campaign activities as the event draws nearer. This has taken them off the Christmas celebrations as they hop from one constituency to another to engage their party delegates.

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia for instance, has been touring a number of constituencies in the Greater Accra Region. The 2024 failed NPP flagbearer used the Christmas holidays to tour Osudoku, Adenta, Madina, Shai, Ayawaso North, East and Central constituencies.

Typical of all Xmas events, the former Vice President's meetings with the delegates attracted crowds of people. Two factors would have been responsible for the crowds. 1. The NPP faithful would have taken advantage of the holidays to meet the former Vice President for their Xmas gifts. 2. Since the events coincided with the Xmas festivities, the organisers would have mixed the campaign program with jams, which usually attract people.

Pretending to be unaware of these factors, Dr. Bawumia and his team have hidden behind the crowds to paint a picture of a certain winning horse. I find this posturing very deceptive and deem it prudent to raise my righteous indignation against it.

This attitude of the former Vice President is insulting to the intelligence of the NPP delegates who have already made up their minds to elect a winning candidate in the person of Mr. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong.

It is obvious that Dr. Bawumia is becoming desperate by the day but to get to that point of insulting the intelligence of the delegates with communist inferior tactics must not be countenanced.

The author is an independent political observer, a columnist with Modern Ghana, an esteemed online news portal, and a regular contributor to News Commentary, a current affairs programme by the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC)