Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia is facing a coalition of nine candidates in the flagbearership race of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
This is according to a presidential staffer Charles Nii Teiko Tagoe, who is known to be a pro-Bawumia person, selling his message especially on social media.
“9 against 1,” he wrote on Facebook before describing the nine other contenders as “The coalition of the defeated even before the battle begins. Do not swim against the tide,” he added.
The Greater Accra Region has so far been covered by Bawumia’s campaign, which is currently in the NPP stronghold of the Ashanti Region.
On Wednesday, July 12, 2023, the New Patriotic Party approved each of the 10 candidates that submitted applications to run for flagbearer.
Before the party’s main convention on November 4, 2023, the ten, which includes Kennedy Agyapong, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, and John Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, will be put through a process called a super delegates congress where the number would be cut to five.