Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Running Mate to Nana Akufo-Addo, has stated that what matters is leadership that advances the interests of the people and that even though it cannot be denied that the President is from the North, his leadership with its attendant incompetence, corruption which has worsened the plight of many a Ghanaian, is not the type of Northern Presidency northerners want and can be proud of.
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia made these comments in Kaleo in the Nadowli-Kaleo Constituency of the Upper West Region, on Saturday, in obvious response to comments the President also made in the Upper West a day earlier.
“President John Mahama tells us that he is our Northern brother; that he is our Northern son and so we should vote for him. He told us this in 2012 and he is back in the Upper West Region and he is spreading the same message, that he is our Northern President.
But we have a Northern President who presides over the looting of funds meant for the development of the North, we have a Northern President who presides over the lack of feeding grants for senior high schools in the north, we have a Northern President who is cancelling teacher and nursing training allowances and we have a Northern President who is presiding over so much corruption in this country”, he said.
Dr. Bawumia observed that Northerners will not be reduced to people who should only be happy because they have a fellow Northerner as President even though the leadership of that Northerner continues to pile up suffering after suffering on Northerners and said that what Northerners want is leadership that solves their problems and leadership that works for all of Ghana including the people of the North.
“So you can just not tell me that simply because you are a Northerner, I should keep you in office to continue to make me suffer. We will not suffer just to keep President John Mahama in office.
We want someone to come to office to solve our problems, not somebody who sits in office and says I am a Northern President so I am going to let them steal your SADA money, cancel your Teacher and Nursing Training Allowances, collapse the National Health Insurance Scheme and not provide any services for your socio-economic advancement; that is not the type of Northern President we want.”
“We want a President of vision, integrity and a President who is honest and a President who will get up and do the work for all the people of Ghana including the people from the 3 Northern Regions”, he added.
The NPP Vice-Presidential Candidate remarked that not only had John Mahama brought untold suffering on Northerners and failed to show the needed commitment to developing the North and all of Ghana, his leadership had also damaged the Northern brand with corruption and a bad record over all.
“I will rather have a President who advances the interest of the people of the North, I will rather have a President who does things that puts us forward, and that is why we are asking for change.”
“Yes John Mahama is our brother but he has failed us completely. In fact northerners never used to be known as corrupt people. We were always poor but we had integrity, we had honesty and we could never be pointed at as being corrupt.
Today we are being pointed at, that brand is being tarnished by President John Mahama who by the way is the worst performing President in the history of the 4th Republic, you can look at the economic data”, he noted.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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PLEASE JUST GO AWAY PEACEFULLY BARAWO MAHAMA. GHANA PEOPLE, WE ARE TIRED OF YOU. COMMONSENSE TOO YOU NO GET SOME. YOU SAY SOMETHING BAD. GHANA PEOPLE SAY YOU NO TALK WELL. BUT INSTEAD OF SAYING AM SORRY, YOU SAY OSAFO MARFO TOO TALK SOME. HABA! YOU BE PRESIDENT OR RADIO SERIAL CALLER? JUST GO AWAY!
Would this man visit the Gonja land in the future? You don't dish out words that you cannot swallow back in this era of electronic media. My brother be careful and let not your love for your party destroy your relationship with your kins and kith. Northerners always honour the position of brotherhood no matter where a particular person is from when they meet; especially in a foreign country. Your talks seem to attack this God given culture of the northern people. Spare your people and save them from further attacks as hewers of wood and drawers of water.
SUCHA ***barred word*** TALK FROM A SO CALLED RUNNING MATE WANTING TO BECOME THE VICE.U THEN MAKE SO MUCH NOICE THAT SOMEONE IS TRIBALISTIC.***barred word*** BAWUMIA. U SUCH AN ***barred word***. LET THEM USE U AND DUMP U. ***barred word***
IT IS THE WISH OF EVERY MOSLEM TO VISIT MECCA ONCE IN HIS LIFE TIME. SO IF A PRESIDENT HAS MAKE THINGS EASY FOR THEM TO GO, YOU CALL THAT NOTHING. ALLAH WILL SURELY REWARD YOU. THIS ELECTION IS A DIVINE ONE. TO THOSE WHO HAVE EYES, THEY WILL SEE.
The reason why people called bawumeah a ***barred word*** and ***barred word*** is that,he bawumeah talk like a child and ***barred word***, bawumeah don't think before he talks, the same bawumeah told Muslims to vote for him because he is a muslem, do muslem vote for lier because he is a muslem or vote for ***barred word*** because he is a muslem? Or should they vote for jeriousy man Because he is muslem, envyness will kill bawumeah and he said will bowdawn his head in shame comes December election
mahama is a tribalistic edddddiot who has done nothing for the northerners. We will vote him out! Northern Ghana deserves better leadership and they will get it with nana Addo. Vote for CHANGE! VOTE FOR NANA!!!!
Were you alive when aliu mahama was the vice president of npp for eight years. Did aliu mahama came from Guinea conakry? Why didn't he and his government which barwumia was part didn't build thousands of toilets in tamale. I cannot understand how stupidddd some people can be. If it's just easy to eliminate all problems in Ghana the way barwumia and co trying to paint then why didn't the kuffour administration did that. Hypocrites, that's why God will keep punishing you all.
A whole Alhaj doesn't even respect a position that they are fighting for. U went to mecca to ask for forgiveness and here u are committing sin double double. Pls, I beg u if nothing at all, the president is older than u n wife, so respect him for sake of Allah (SWA), the who created everything including u n the master of judgment day.
This guy running completely insane. This comment can even anger his own northerners, because it feeds into the stereotype by the Akans that northerners are ediots who cannot do any thing good. If I were the president I would use this to my advantage. Apart from barwumia, npp should tell us any northerner who holds any enviable position in the party.
Bawumia is really a confused person He is comfortable with the old sick man, who is deceiving everyone including himself. Poor Bawumia !!