The Volta Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Makafui Woanyah, has urged members of the party to be guided by history and retain former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as the party’s flagbearer for the 2028 elections.
Making a strong case for Dr. Bawumia’s retention, the regional chairman told party members in Hohoe — during the Vice President’s campaign tour of the region — that history has proven that consistency in maintaining candidates ultimately leads to victory. He cited the experiences of Presidents John Agyekum Kufuor and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to illustrate his point.
“In the political market, there are rules. And the rule, as evident in Ghana, is that consistency is the key. We’ve seen it with the NDC, and we’ve seen it with the NPP — when you take a product to the market and it is not bought, repeat that product, and it will eventually be bought,” Chairman Woanyah said.
He continued, “The precedent is clear. President Kufuor went twice before we got it. President Akufo-Addo went three times before we got it.”
The Volta Regional Chairman also pointed to the examples of former Presidents John Evans Atta Mills and John Dramani Mahama, who both made multiple attempts at the presidency before eventually winning after being repeatedly endorsed by the NDC.
“Mahama went three times and got it. The first was because President Mills passed away, and with the mourning and sympathies, he won in 2012. But when he came back in 2016, he lost. They repeated him in 2020 — he lost again — and then he came back in 2024,” he explained.