NPP in good shape for victory — Dr Bawumia

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is in a very good shape and riding to victory in 2024, the flag bearer of the party, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has assured supporters.

He said with 89 days to go for the elections, the party would have to work hard and unite for victory.

“We have to work hard  and come together, unified in every constituency, every electoral area and every polling station, to make sure we bring out our people on the day,” he said.

Speaking to party faithful at the NPP’s Headquarters shortly after filing his nomination at the EC Office, Dr Bawumia said the narrative had changed and the momentum was now on the side of the party.

A year ago, he said the opponents of the party seemed very confident but today the situation had changed, with them seeing themselves losing the elections.

The Vice-President also spoke about the cancellation of the teacher and nursing training allowances, power outages (dumsor) for four years with the National Health Insurance Scheme and the National Ambulance Service collapsing.

He said following the assumption of power of the NPP in 2017, with Nana Akufo-Addo, the government moved very quickly and everything had gone reasonably well.

The government, he said, faced storms along the way but had managed to overcome that.

He said the party had created more jobs, built more hospitals, schools, sports facilities, sanitation facilities, court houses, public libraries and fibre optic cables than the National Democratic Congress, its main opponent.

Again, he said the party brought free senior high school, technical, vocational educational education and training (TVET), restored teacher and nursing training allowances and “now we want to move this country into a digital age”

The NPP, he said, would transform the country and implored the supporters to believe in what the party was doing.

Uplift

“We are here for Ghana and not for ourselves individually. We want to uplift Ghana and transform it and I believe we are going to do it.

“I want you all to get together with us and let’s have a peaceful election. This election is about ideas. We are not going to enter the election to fight, it is only people without ideas, people who are empty who would resort to fighting,” he said, adding that “we are full of ideas”

The Chairman of the NPP Campaign, Dan Botwe, said with a manifesto and candidates, including the flag bearer, the focus of the party now was to work hard and win December 7.

“We are going to wage a disciplined focused campaign and we are going to win power,” he said.

The Majority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, said the NPP was an inclusive party that provided opportunity for everyone to excel, irrespective of religious or ethnic backgrounds.

Mr Afenyo-Markin, thus, charged the rank and file of the party to unite behind the flag bearer and work extra hard in the constituencies, electoral areas and polling stations for victory in this year's elections.

The gathering at the party's headquarters attracted the wife of the flag bearer, Hajia Samira Bawumia, the NPP running mate to the flag bearer, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, and his wife, Alma Nana Pokua Abena Adade-Prempeh, National Chairman of the party, Stephen Ayesu Ntim, the General Secretary, Justin Kodua Frimpong, and party supporters.