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The Northern Youth for Peace and Development (NYUPED) has declared its support for Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to lead the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2024 presidential elections.
The Group said that Dr. Bawumia was well accepted in the Christian and Muslim communities, and would be the best candidate to lead the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as a standard-bearer in 2024.
At a press conference in Accra on Tuesday, Mr. Prince Adams, Executive Director of NYUPED, expressed concern about an alleged campaign against Dr. Bawumia’s image, which made his personality “redundant and inconsequential” in the Party. .
He called on those against Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s presidential prospects for 2024 to desist from such campaigns and allow a level playing field in the run-up to the Party’s national congress.
Mr. Adams highlighted that the Youth of the North Region had decided to take on the challenge of defending and proving that Dr. Bawumia was the right fit to take over from President Nana Akufo-Addo.
“There is no general rule of the order of arrival in the Party leadership, nor a convention in which the ethnic or religious group assumes a position or function. The rule is that the most competent person is placed ahead of his competitors ”, he emphasized.
The Executive Director stated that, in the current political administration, no one should sideline Dr. Bawumia because the effect of such a decision would spell electoral disaster for the PNP in 2024.
He said that in 2008, the PNP had only four seats in the North Region, in 2012, the seats increased to 10 while in 2016, the seats increased further to 12, and in 2020, the Party had 16 seats in the Region due to the influence of Dr. Bawumia, highlighting that he was the best candidate of the Party for the presidential elections of 2024.
—GNA
