The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) 2028 flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has urged the youth in the party to brace themselves up for leadership positions as they work towards bringing the NPP back to power.
According to him, it is the vision of the party to give leadership opportunities to the young ones whom he says are the future of the elephant fraternity.
The former Vice President, speaking at a meeting with student leaders ahead of a three-day boot camp organised by the party on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, remarked that the event was scheduled to equip young party members with the skills and experience needed to occupy key leadership positions in future.
“I want you to be assured that this training program is for your benefit because we want the youth to take key leadership positions. And we cannot get you into key leadership positions if we don’t prepare you for the uptake of these leadership positions,” he added.
He noted that the NPP could return to power in 2028 if they begin reorganisation and mobilisation early.
“2028, Inshallah, it is going to happen in 2028. It is possible. It is possible. And we are going to work towards it,” he stated.
Dr. Bawumia says the NPP’s victory is not going to be by chance, but rather, through hard work which involves the training and engagement with young voters across the country.
“We are not going to sit down and say it will happen, but we are going to work,” he said.
As part of making student engagement and leadership development central to the party’s strategy, Dr. Bawumia further assured that the young ones would play a decisive role in the next election just they did in the 2024 exercise.
“The youth will take over the key positions as we move forward in this country. You know that the vote is largely youth-dominated. 2028, as it was in 2024, will be a youth-dominated election,” Dr. Bawumia noted.
Dr. Bawumia further noted that the Tertiary Students Confederacy of the New Patriotic Party (TESCON) will also not be left out, saying he would visit several campuses in the coming years to present the party’s ideas and vision.
“We will take the debate, the ideas to the country, and we will make our case,” he said.
He said political pressure and arrests are not going to get them intimidated as they prepare ahead of the next elections. “We are, however, saying that we will not be intimidated. You can arrest all of us. We will come back and make our case to the people of Ghana,” he stated.
