All coordinators stepped forward to announce their declarations in front of Dr Bawumia
Former Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s increasing momentum in the NPP presidential primaries received a major boost yesterday with emphatic endorsements.
All Electoral Area Coordinators of three constituencies; Yunyoo and Chereponi in the North East Region, as well as Saboba in the Northern Region openly declared their support for the Dr Bawumia.
On the final day of his tour of the North East Region, Yunyoo and Chereponi constituencies followed what the likes of Yagaba, Walewale and Bunkpurugu constituencies had done the previous day by also announcing mass declarations.
All the coordinators of the two constituencies, Yunyoo and Chereponi, during their respective constituency engagements, stepped forward to announce their declarations in front of Dr Bawumia himself and the packed gathering, which also included polling station executives.
From there, Dr Bawumia moved to Saboba Constituency, in the Northern Region, and over there too, the coordinators endorsed him en bloc.
Interestingly, all the coordinators, while announcing their full support and promise to work for the Vice President, also prevented him from addressing, insisting that “it is a waste of his time” to campaign to them when they had already made up their mind to vote for him.
At Saboba, where the enthusiastic crowd decided to prevent Dr Bawumia from campaigning to them, he pleaded with them to allow him address them.
And when they reluctantly agreed that he should speak, Dr Bawumia spoke for just ten minutes – instead of his usual 60-minute campaign address – and he expressed gratitude to them.
Dr Bawumia’s campaign has received tremendous support from the party’s grassroot, with electoral area coordinators in many constituencies across the country endorsing him.
The electoral area coordinators is a key bloc within the NPP electoral college and getting their support is viewed by analysts as very key to electoral success.
The coordinators work together with polling station executives within an electoral area, and the support of the electoral area coordinators often reflect the support of the polling station executives, and vice versa.
