Bawumia urged to tackle inducements in 2028 NPP parliamentary primaries

The former Vice President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the Election 2028 flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has been urged to ensure that the party’s 2028 parliamentary primaries are conducted devoid of vote buying, gift sharing, and favouritism.

According to Mr. Yaw Dabie Appiah Mensah, a member of the Bono Regional Council of Elders of the NPP, the party is determined to win and regain political power in Election 2028.

He said that goal could be achieved if the former vice president and the newly elected national executives ensure that winnable parliamentary candidates are elected, regardless of their financial status.

In an interview with the media in Sunyani, Mr. Mensah, 75, and popularly known in political circles as “Orga,” congratulated the newly elected national executives of the NPP.

He reminded them that their elections went beyond mere political positions, stressing that they were elected to identify and tackle the challenges that contributed to the NPP’s humiliating defeat in Election 2024.

Mr. Mensah, also a former organiser of the NPP in the then Brong-Ahafo Region, stressed that vote buying and favouritism in successive NPP parliamentary primaries remained major setbacks that ought to be tackled head‑on.

“So Bawumia and his newly elected national, regional, and constituency executives must ensure that the NPP presents the choice of the electorate as parliamentary candidates in Election 2028, and not those who are able to influence delegates to vote for them simply because of their wealth,” he stated.

Mr. Mensah said his hopes in the newly elected NPP national executives remain high, with the conviction that they, together with Alhaji Dr. Bawumia, can wrestle political power from the NDC.

He expressed optimism that the party would bring everyone on board for an effective electioneering campaign toward victory in 2028.

Mr. Mensah called on the various candidates who contested but lost the national, regional, and constituency positions to allow the supreme interest of the NPP to override their personal political ambitions and contribute their quota toward making the party appealing, especially to floating voters.