Thank You Tour: Bawumia trying to emasculate competitors - Kwadwo Twum Boafo

Ing Kwadwo Twum Boafo, Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Intelligence Centre, has described the ‘Thank You’ circuit led by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) campaigner for the 2024 elections, arsenic a calculated effort by Bawumia and his supporters to undermine imaginable rivals successful the party’s flagbearer contention and tilt the contention successful his favor.

During a sheet treatment connected the Friday, April 2, variation of Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana program, Ing. Twum Boafo drew parallels betwixt Dr. Bawumia’s post-election maneuvers and those of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo successful the past.

He illustrated however Nana Akufo-Addo employed akin strategies to outmaneuver his competitors and found himself arsenic the NPP’s leader.

According to Ing. Twum Boafo, Dr. Bawumia, a protégé of the erstwhile president, is adopting comparable tactics to weaken his rivals and unafraid different accidental to contention for the presidency.

“Dr Bawumia is replicating what Akufo-Addo did. Beat imaginable contenders down into submission and fto maine beryllium re-elected arsenic flagbearer,” helium said.

Ing. Twum Boafo, however, argued that alternatively of naming the circuit ‘Thank You,’ Dr. Bawumia and the NPP should person opted for an ‘Apology Tour,’ arsenic it would amended bespeak the circumstances.

“They should person labelled it an apology tour. He should apologize to america each for each helium has done. What are you thanking america for? For forcing america to spell down the extent of deprivation? He wants to travel back? Come backmost and bash what?,” helium said.

The salient National Democratic Congress (NDC) subordinate asserted that Dr. Bawumia’s effort to usage the circuit to beforehand himself volition beryllium ineffective, arsenic Ghanaians person go discerning and tin spot done specified tactics.

According to him, Dr. Bawumia had 8 years to show his statesmanlike credentials and impressment Ghanaians. Instead, helium was a cardinal fig successful a authorities that inflicted important hardships connected the populace.

“What is antithetic present is that Ghanaians are precise very omniscient to what the NPP did successful the 8 years that they were successful power. Ghanaians are omniscient to the deficiency of enactment that Bawumia showed successful the 8 years that helium was there. The dereliction of work that the vice president did,” helium said.