Martin Amidu, Ghana’s former Attorney-General, has disclosed that the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, once lobbied to become a running mate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
According to Amidu, the Vice President whose parents were sympathisers of the NDC lobbied through the late former President Rawlings to be chosen as running mate to the late John Evans Atta Mills when the party decided to pick a Muslim from northern Ghana as Vice Presidential candidate.
In his latest epistle released Wednesday, December 04, 2024, Martin Amidu provided reasons for which he cannot support the Vice President in his bid to become President, stating that a vote for him would be a continuation of Akufo-Addo’s tenure.
“Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and his siblings during the lifetime of their father were known NDC sympathizers with Dr. Bawumia’s mother being the women’s organizer for the West Mamprusi Constituency of the NDC.
“Young Mahamudu after his father had arranged with President Rawlings for him to return home and to be employed at the Bank of Ghana in 2000 became restless in 2004 when the NDC at its delegates congress in Kumasi decided that the next NDC running mate should be a northerner and a Muslim.
“Mahamudu Bawumia lobbied behind the scenes with Jerry John Rawlings to be nominated, as I was informed by the late President, whilst at the Bank of Ghana but lost out. The choice was for Professor Mills to make and not former President Rawlings,” Amidu disclosed.
He added that it was during the period that “Nana Akufo-Addo had identified and groomed the restless and ambitious Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia whilst he was at the Bank of Ghana and lobbying to become the next Vice Presidential candidate to the NDC and the NPP simultaneously.”
He stated as part of his reasons that President Akufo-Addo, since the time, has groomed Bawumia and made him his poodle, citing a comment Bawumia made in Walewale as a confirmation of him being a clone of Akufo-Addo.
“The established loyalists of the NPP tradition objected to Nana Akufo-Addo’s proposal to make Dr. Bawumia his running mate for the 2008 elections but lost the contest once Nana Akufo-Addo won the presidential primaries to represent the NPP in those elections. The process of grooming, cloning, and the socialization of Dr. Bawumia as Nana Akufo-Addo’s poodle began leading to the sharing of the similar governance principles Bawumia espoused at the Walewale rally.
“Nana Akufo-Addo has so succeeded in grooming Dr. Bawumia in his own character and image that he can rest assured that when Dr. Bawumia succeeds him as President the fruits of “Ohene sℇ wo foro akoŋwa yi na sℇ wo aŋya sika a, wↄ bℇka sℇ wo yℇ okwasanpa ni”, however, that does NOT mean that ONLY … [name] and … [name] alone should make ALL the money …the money must spread” will be protected from auditing for his family, friends and cronies under his regime to sleep in peace.”
[FULL TEXT]: Why Martin Amidu cannot support Mahamudu Bawumia’s candidature at the 2024 elections
