A Referendum On The NPP Bawumia

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A Referendum On The NPP Bawumia

…Selected speeches and Brief Profile of NPP Dr Mahamudu Bawumia- the two-times New Patriotic Party (NPP) Vice-Presidential Candidate and the Prophet Elisha in Contemporary UP Politricks

ABSTRACT

Historically; as it had always been, there are currently, two huge political eagles perching on two olive branches of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) political Baobab Tree or should I say, the United Party(UP): The Popular Front Party (PFP) and the United National Convention (UNC). According to Statesman Akenten Appiah Menka; the U.N.C. was essentially, a combination of the Progress Party “Walk Outs” from da Rocha’s law office and most of the Gbedemah’s N.A.L. Party members notably Okudjeto, Osei Nyame, Dr. Obed Asamoah, Dr. Agama and few outsiders including Peter Ala Adjetey, Prof Adu Boahen, Harry Sawyerr and unbelievably, General Afrifa. “The battle for the dirty mudslinging had begun between P.F.P. and U.N.C. The result was the second round Presidential election between Hilla Limann’s P.N.P and Victor Owusu’s P.F.P. As the U.N.C. came third with their political stalwarts of Paa Willie, N.Y.B. Adade, Prof. Adu Boahen, Afrifa, R.R. Amponsah,Yaw Manu, Ala Adjetey, Dr. Agama, Sam Okudjeto, Obed Asamoah and Harry Sawyerr, ignored their political roots of the Danquah-Busia-Dombo tradition and opted for the P.N.P. of the C.P.P. ancestry. This enabled Limann Win the Land slide victory over the PFP victor Owusu in Round Two. Thus the Danquah/Busia/Dombo houses divided against itself, fell in 1979 and the builder had to wait for over twenty years to put it back in 2001.”[1] Are these NPP’s [mis]fortunes before Bawumia- the first UP non-Akan leader?

INTRODUCTION

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia made a strong case and repute for himself when he mounted the witness box at the Supreme Court of Ghana in his party’s legal bid to unseat the president-elect John Dramani Mahama on allegation of the 2012 presidential election fraud and irregularities. He was nearly killed in a car accident at the time John Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, was seeking the support of president-elect, in his bid to become WTO boss. What many are puzzling are: what if Kyerematen- a former Minister of Trade, Industry and Presidential Special Initiatives, had triumphed in his bid to become the next World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General, in which according to the Reuters News Agency, he was at the time in close-contest with candidates from Brazil – Roberto Azevedo, Taeho Bark of South Korea, Herminio Blanco from Mexico, Mari Pangestu of Indonesia and not least, Tim Groser of New Zealand?