Daniel Bugri Naabu, the former Northern Regional Chairman of the NPP, has sent a strong signal that a rejection of Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia in his bid to lead the party in the upcoming flagbearership race will reinforce the perception that northerners in the party are only suitable for playing second fiddle.
In making a case for the candidature of the Vice President, he said, “Nana Akufo-Addo has come to choose Mahamud Bawumia, he has also filed to be the flagbearer.
If this time they don’t vote for him, it means they hate northerners, that is simple! They only say we are together by mouth but they don’t mean it! So we northerners, we are to learn sense this time. How many northerners have become presidents? Nothing.”
He added, “Now if Bawumia is rejected by the Ashantis, it means we are not together… Some of the MPs or former MPs have started saying that we northerners we are good for Vice so they are insulting us.
So we don’t know how to become president but only vice? I don’t think it is the best. I’m appealing to everybody to have in mind that at the end of that day, Dr. Mahamud Bawumia will be voted for.”
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