The 2024 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has rubbished purported assertions that his Muslim background contributed to the party’s loss in the last elections.
According to him, the assertion was never the reason why they lost power to the National Democratic Congress (NDC), describing it as mere “propaganda.”
“When we finished the election, there were so many people who were giving different reasons for why we lost. When you look at the reasons people were offering, one of the reasons people offered was that they said that they didn’t vote for us [NPP] because our presidential candidate was Muslim.
“Have you not heard that? When I heard that, I said that this doesn’t make sense. This is not the Ghana that I know,” he said while speaking at the party’s headquarters on Wednesday, April 23, ahead of the NPP’s ‘Thank You Tour’.
He expressed disbelief that such a reason could be attributed to their defeat, pointing out that, as the only Muslim among the ten candidates who contested the party’s flagbearer position, he emerged victorious.
“When you look at the data, it was clear, in many constituencies across the country, the NPP presidential candidate performed [better than] Christian parliamentary candidates on the NPP ticket. If religion were a factor, that wouldn’t be the case,” Dr. Bawumia noted.
The former Vice President emphasized that “if you look all across the country, the fact is there was no religious factor in the voting. It’s only propaganda.”
Dr. Bawumia called on the general public to embrace unity rather than pay attention to division, stressing that Ghana is one nation.
“We are one nation, we will all go together, whether Muslim or Christian, we rise and move forward together.”
