Dr Bawumia has lived up to what a modern afrocentric Vice President should be – Prof. Sikanku

Political Communications analyst, Prof. Etse Sikanku believes that Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has lived up to what a modern Afroctric Vice President should be.

He premises his position on the fact that the Vice President took up his position which had been routine in the past and made it an influential position in the almost eight years his political party has been in power.

Prof. Etse Sikanku was speaking on Accra-based Metro Television addressing various thematic discussions in his book ‘Dr Bawumia and The Modern Vice Presidency In Ghana’ when he made this known.

“He took a position which had been quite routine, which had not been as prominent. Took it, made it his own, and looked for problems in areas that he thought the country needed solutions to and ran with it.

So he has transformed that position and made it much more visible and more prominent and that is what we Vice Presidential scholars have come up with, the treaties of the Vice Presidency, how to make it very very effective.

This is an office that can be the single most transformative executive framework for the transformation of the country in terms of it being an instrument for social justice, social progress and social cohesion and if you look at all these three indicators, this is a Vice President who has fulfilled these three indicators of what a modern Afrocentric Vice President should be,” he said on Accra-based Metro Television.

On the book, Prof Etse Sikanku indicated that the content goes beyond politics and provides lessons from Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s leadership which can be adopted by Corporate leaders among others.

He said “The book does focus on the Vice President and the unique qualities and attributes he brings to the office. I tease out a number of them, that is his empathy, humility, hard work, excellence, loyalty and dependability, progressiveness and forward-thinking nature especially when it comes to digitization and the kind of dedication and commitment that he brings to his work”.

Additionally, he added”I can say also that the book goes beyond the politics and I tease out lessons that we can learn from his leadership. I remember when Obama became President Forbes and some other scholars looked into his Presidency and found what kind of lessons or how useful can it be to Corporate leadership and Communication.

So beyond the politics, there are lessons that we tease from the book that will be useful even if you don’t support the Vice President or even if you’re not interested in politics. There are lessons there for the Youth in terms of leadership, and there are lessons there for Corporate Leadership in terms of what Deputies and Assistants can learn from him and his loyalty to the President, his hard work and his dependability.