Dr Bawumia: I’m Committed To Helping Akufo-Addo Deliver On His Promises; 2024 Elections Is Not My Focus

• Vice President Dr Bawumia has revealed that his primary focus is to help President Akufo-Addo to deliver on his mandate
• According to him, the 2024 general elections is not on his top-most agenda as the government is, first of all, committed to finding solutions to the economic crisis
• Breaking the silence on his presidential ambition, he also added that he took that position not to focus on his personal ambition because the next elections will be contested on the record of the current government; hence it has to succeed at all cost

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has broken the silence on his presidential ambitions.

Dr Bawumia, widely tipped to be the successor to President Akufo-Addo in the 2024 general elections, is facing stiff competition from two-time NPP flagbearer contestant Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, maverick politician Kennedy Agyapong among others.

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Opening up on whether he intends to contest or not, Dr Bawumia said his primary focus is to help the current government deliver on its core mandate.

According to him, the 2024 elections is not on the top of his bucket list as he remains committed to helping the president deliver on his plans and policies for now.

Speaking to a Kenyan private TV channel, KTN News, Dr Bawumia reiterated his resolve to bring his expertise to bear to address the current economic challenges.

“We don’t really have too much time for thinking about 2024 right now. I think that if you get to 2024 and you don’t have a record, you will have nothing to campaign on. So right now, we are focused on that and we don’t know what the future holds but we will focus on the work for now,” he said.

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The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), which has indicated its resolve to make history by breaking the eight-year political circle in Ghana, is expected to elect a flagbearer next year.

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Some party stalwarts who fear an acrimonious campaign season between the two leading contenders, Dr Bawumia and Alan Kyerematen, have proposed that the two politicians be presented as Flagbearer and Running Mate for the next polls, described by experts as a do-or-die affair.

Professor Gyampo Criticises NPP's Break The 8 Campaign: Says Ghana's Problem Is Wicked Leadership

Earlier, YEN.com.gh reported that a senior political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Legon, Professor Ransford Gyampo, had attributed the myriad of problems the country is facing to the wickedness of its political leaders.

Prof Gyampo took to his Facebook page on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, to rant about what, to him, was a lack of committed leaders to run the country's affairs.

Source: YEN.com.gh