Bawumia shakes Keta as nursing trainees, residents give him a rousing reception

The electrifying Volta Regional tour of Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia continued on Thursday with two grand events.

At the Keta Constituency, where Vice President Bawumia started day 5 of his Volta Regional campaign, nursing trainees at the Keta Nursing and Midwifery Training College gave him a rapturous reception. He later completed his tour of the Constituency with a mammoth "community connect" rally.

At the Keta Nursing Training College, which hosted Dr. Bawumia's engagement with stakeholders of the Constituency, including traditional and religious leaders, the campus was set agog upon the arrival of the NPP Presidential Candidate.

Scores of students trooped to welcome him, and as he arrived, they mobbed him amidst cheers and chants of his name and "it is possible" slogan.

The enthusiastic reaction of the students and their open show of love for Bawumia is understandable. A few months ago, a heavy rainstorm ripped off the roof of the school's main auditorium, and the school made a public appeal for support. Dr. Bawumia intervened and personally funded the renovation of the auditorium.

As the students showed open appreciation to Dr. Bawumia, the Principal of the school seized the opportunity during the stakeholders' engagement to express the College's profound gratitude to the Vice President.

"We are here to say a very big thank you to His Excellency the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, for what he has done for KNTC. We don't have too many words to say. We are very grateful for what you have done for us. Without you, we would not have been able to admit our first-year students. God bless you, Sir," said the Principal of the School.

The students chanted Dr. Bawumia's name throughout, and they increased the tempo when he responded positively to another request by the school for computers, projectors, a generator, and motorbikes to enhance teaching and learning.

Later in the day, the Keta township was set agog as Bawumia held his community connect, an open engagement mostly with the youth.

The event was well attended by both the young and the old, who showed up in both normal attire and NPP colours.

For a Constituency deemed a stronghold of the NPP, the numbers that turned up in Keta for Bawumia were described as unprecedented.

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