Former Vice President of Ghana and 2024 NPP presidential candidate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has expressed immense gratitude to a group of NPP Members of Parliament who have declared support for him to be retained as the party’s flagbearer towards the 2028 elections.
The MPs, numbering about 67, called on Dr Bawumia Thursday morning at his office in Accra and declared their support for him.
Speaking after the visit, Dr Bawumia described the visit and support by the MPs as significant, stressing it demonstrates a “strong show of support” from key stakeholders at the grass root level.
“It was a visit from our Members of Parliament and I think that it was a very happy visit. A courtesy call and a call to declare support for me and I’m so happy in terms of the group that have declared support for me from Parliament, now amounts to over 60 members of Parliament. And you know we have 88 member of Parliament, so that tells you that a very significant Members of Parliament have declared their support for me.”
“This is a strong show of support and I thank them and I thank God for this strong show of support…I believe that this is going to be very important because the Members of Parliament as you know, control the constituencies to a very large extent and I’m very happy for what they have done today,” Dr. Bawumia said.
While expressing gratitude to the MPs, Dr . Bawumia urged them to get to work saying “off we go. There is a lot of hard work to be done to help the party and to help the country”.
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