A member of Bryan Acheampong’s campaign team and former Member of Parliament for Anyaa Sowutuom, Dr. Dickson Adomako Kissi, has called on New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegates to “drop” former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in the upcoming flagbearership contest if the party wants to secure victory in the 2028 elections.
Speaking on Accra-based Channel One TV, Dr. Kissi compared Dr. Bawumia to the biblical Jonah, who had to be thrown overboard to save a sinking ship.
“It is not just about one individual. When it happened that Jonah had to be removed from the ship to save the ship, it happened, and it gets to a point in time when you need to remove any Jonah who is sinking the ship,” he explained.
Responding to suggestions that NPP delegates in the Greater Accra Region have already thrown their support behind Dr. Bawumia instead of Bryan Acheampong, he argued that the former’s performance in the previous primaries and general election indicates a loss of confidence among party members in the region.
“I didn’t really want to go there, but in the last primaries, he underperformed in Greater Accra, and in Greater Accra, we won only two in the presidency out of the 34.
“Greater Accra is not very responsive to him like they are responding to Dr. Bryan Acheampong, and that one is not me; it’s the euphoria I am accessing from behind,” he said.
Dr. Adomako Kissi added that the NPP’s poor performance in the last presidential election should serve as a wake-up call for a leadership change, drawing a comparison to the National Democratic Congress (NDC), which replaced Haruna Iddrisu with Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson as Minority Leader.
“The party deficit requires that we make a radical change, and it is not about the individuals. Let me commend the NDC—when they realised they had to remove Haruna Iddrisu to win the Central Region, they did it. Haruna Iddrisu is a colossal figure. The NDC moved him from Parliament as a leader so that they could win the Central Region,” he said.
Source: Adomonline