The utterances made by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia prior to him becoming Vice President haunted his 2024 campaign, Dr. Kwasi Amakye Boateng, a political analyst, has intimated.
The senior lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) says Dr. Bawumia spoke as an academic without considering the impact of his words.
Analysing the final rallies of the National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party on Onua TV’s Ghana Decides Friday, December 06, 2024, he said Bawumia should have recognised himself as a politician whose words would be judged someday, rather than as an academic.
He explained that the non-performance of the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia administration made the Vice President find it difficult to marry his utterances 8 years ago with his 2024 campaign.
The very issues, according to the KNUST lecturer, that Dr. Bawumia spoke extensively on for the NPP to win the 2016 and 2020 polls were utterly avoided by the Vice President in his 2024 campaign.
“Bawumia spoke a lot in the past 8 years. He said so many things like an academic who speaking in the classroom whom to some extent would not be held accountable by his words. At the time he had become a politician and whatever happened brought him to government so all the things he said came back to haunt him later. He really suffered in his campaign.
“Dr. Bawumia’s position 8 years ago was about the economy, unemployment, political corruption. All his messages centred around these 3 things 8 years ago but during his campaign, he couldn’t go near any of those,” he stated.
Dr. Amakye Boateng continued that Dr. Bawumia’s supposed digitalisation has not delivered any real impact as he failed to mention any of such in his campaign. He said he was expecting him to state the real impact of the digitalisation in terms of increasing revenue for the state but could not make a single allusion to that.
Digitalisation, according to the political science lecturer, is not an end in itself but a means which should have reflected on the economy.
“He later resorted to digitalisation and the impact on digitalisation is reflected on the basis of the economy. Digitalisation doesn’t feed itself and as an end in itself but translates into the country’s finances. The changes in the Tema port should reflect in the funds the nation makes from there but we waited and he couldn’t link that,” he added.
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