Controversial musician cum politic activist, Kwame Obeng Asare popularly known as Kwame A-Plus has asserted that the leader of the governing New Patriotic Party, President Akufo-Addo is rooting for the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to succeed him as the party’s flagbearer with Coomunications Minister Ursula Owusu Ekuful as the running mate in the 2024 General Elections.
In a post on social media, A Plus claimed Ursula Owusu’s recent tour of various regions including the Upper East Region and Oti Region is to make herself popular with the Ghanaian people as part of her vice presidential ambition.
“Why is Gabby pretending that he does not know why Ursula Owusu who is the NPP Ablekuma West Parliamentary candidate would leave her Constituency and be campaigning in the Upper East, Northern regions and other parts of Ghana instead of concentrating on her constituency? I have been reliably informed that she has vice presidential ambitions. She is just trying to build an image to be selected as Bawumia’s vice very soon. Because nobody knows her outside Accra,” he stated.
Kwame A Plus, however, believes President Akufo-Addo cannot force his will on the members of the elephant party.
Recounting the 2007 primaries of the NPP which saw the elections of Akufo-Addo as the party’s flagbearer, he argued that, just like the supposed preferred candidate of former president Kufour was rejected by the party’s delegates, the alleged Bawumia-Ursula presidential slot which is supposedly the current president’s preference will be rejected by the party.
“But you see, money and power has deleted the 2007 experience from their heads. Just as Kufour was not able to force Alan Kyeremanten on NPP then, Akufo-Addo can’t force anyone on NPP now! Even if he is able to win this election, from 2022, nobody would pick his calls and those who contest for even polling station chairmen in his name will lose. The kind of humiliation that awaits these people, what happened to ex-president Kufour between 2007 and 2010 will be small,” he wrote.
