The outspoken NPP Former Constituency Youth Organizer and Former Ag Constituency Communication Director, Kintampo North and Chairman of the Bono East Regional Youth Wing working Committee and also a member of the Bono East Regional Communication team, Hon. Joseph Nyindam Nanga, aka Mutumina, has advised the NPP to consider Dr. Bawumia as their choice if we want to win power in the 2028 General elections.
Speaking on Nkoranza-Based Sompa TV on Friday, 20th June 2025. He said the over 60 members of Parliament who invited the former Flagbearer to their meeting and threw their unflinching support behind him ahead of the 31st January 2026, Presidential Primaries of the party have done the needful to make the candidate look fearful and formidable to the political opponents in the 2028 General elections.
He also said Dr. Bawumia's performance in the 2024 elections as a first timer was not abysmal as asserted by some people within the party.
The NPP has had four presidential candidates in the 4th Republic from 1992, Prof. Adu Boahen, former President John Agyekum Kuffour, former president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and former Vice President Dr Mahamud Bawumia.
As a first timer, Dr Bawumia pulled 64.47%, which was the highest among all the first-time presidential candidates of the party's Presidential Primaries, i.e., Prof Adu Boahen in 1992, JA Kuffour in 1996, and Nana Addo in 2008.
When it comes to the general elections, except Nana Addo, who got a higher percentage (49.77%) in the 2008 general elections than Dr Bawumia, who got (41.61%) in 2024 as a first timer. When it comes to the number of votes in figures, Dr Bawumia got 4,67,304 compared to Nana Addo's 4,480,446. The rest, Prof Adu Boahen, got 30.29% in 1992 while JA Kuffour got 39.67% in 1996.
Speaking on the decision of the National Council of the party on the tentative date for the Presidential Primaries, our party Constitution which was duly registered on 24th June 1992, amended on 29th August 1998, again amended on 22nd August 2009 and finally on 17th December 2017 states in article 13, how the party should elect our Presidential Candidate. It is not done to favour any presidential hopeful.
Let's not forget as a party that any candidate we will elect to lead our party is going to campaign on the success of Nana-Bawumia achievements in government. So, if we allow Dr. Bawumia to lead us to tell this story may be better placed than anyone within the party.
He also carries an institutional memory of both Party and Government, which is a resource to utilise.
He is active and still prepared to lead and should be given the chance.
We need to unite around the elephant and the Red,White, blue colours in order to win the 2028 general elections.
With Dr. Mahamud Bawumia, the NPP, shall win the 2028 elections with a majority of Members of Parliament and form the next government to make Ghana work again.
God bless our Party, the New Patriotic Party, and bless us with Victory 2028.
