Bawumia’s accident could be an inside job – Asiedu Nketia

Johnson Asiedu Nketia has alleged that Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia Sunday’s accident could be a sinister plot by some elements within the New Patriotic Party (NPP), contrary to the party’s claim that the NDC was behind it.

The vice presidential candidate of the NPP sustained minor injuries when the car he was travelling on somersaulted several times on the Bole road in the Northern Region.

The back tires of Dr Bawumia’s vehicle reportedly got burst which led to the car somersaulting.

General Secretary of the NPP, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, on Monday told journalists in Accra that the NPP suspects that operatives of the national security tampered with the tires of Dr Bawumia’s brand new vehicle before embarking on the journey.

But in a swift rebuttal, the NDC’s General Secretary said the death of Dr Bawumia will be more beneficial to the NPP than the NDC, considering the controversies that surrounded his selection as running mate by Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2012 election.

He said some members of the NPP saw Dr. Bawumia as a threat to their political aspirations and therefore would want to see him out of the way to enable them pursue their ambitions.

“We in the NDC have nothing to gain from the demise of Bawumia and Jake. What have they done against us that we want them dead? How can an intellectual [Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie] be talking like that?” Mr Asiedu Nketia said on Asempa FM Monday.

“I believe it was an accident...we do not consider Dr. Bawumia a threat for which we have to plot his death; every Ghanaian must know that the bigwigs in the NPP do not want Dr. Bawumia to get where he wants to get to, and now that Nana Addo has lost disgracefully...they are not ready for Bawumia to succeed Nana Addo. Whether Bawumia is dead or alive it does not take or add anything to the NDC,” he stated.

He said Dr Bawumia is not on any ballot paper and has not contested any election, adding that “it will not be reasonable to attack him.”