Vote Dr Bawumia as President of Ghana

Fellow Ghanaians, may you lend me your ears for a second? I invite you to approach this published expression of candid views by the writer, your fellow Ghanaian.

Ghana is today in the throes of electioneering campaign where many an aspiring politician or presidential candidate will be soliciting, or canvassing, for, your votes to enable them to win the upcoming December 7, 2024, general election to come to serve you.

Whenever two candidates are vying for a position, one will surely be selected and the other rejected. The criterion for the one to be selected should be meritocracy but not based on “whom you know”, the seeming practice in Ghana, although regrettably counterproductive in many instances.

Out of tribalism, nepotism, political polarisation, and partisanship, many a Ghanaian may choose to vote for someone of their tribal extraction, although that candidate may be incompetent, corrupt, and not cut out for the job.

When I put both aspiring presidential candidates, Dr Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia and Mr John Dramani Mahama, on the scale, the balance tips lopsidedly in favour of Dr Bawumia, the current Vice President of Ghana. He is more competent, honest, innovative, and visionary in every sense of the words than his opponent Mr John Dramani Mahama, the self-acclaimed sufferer from the “dead goat” syndrome.

While Dr Bawumia in all sincerity is the bigger brain that thinks big and good for the country, Mr Mahama on the other hand thinks shallowly.

A person who is cloaked in lies and by his actions seen to perpetrate violence and confusion is not worth to be entrusted with the governance of Ghana, I must confess.

While Dr Bawumia tells what he will do if entrusted with the mantle of the presidency come 7th December 2024, Mr Mahama on the other hand is always seen to be lying about his opponent and destructively criticising him and his NPP government without proposing any serious policy or programme. Is such a person worthy to come back to govern Ghana on the slate of coming back to correct his earlier blunders committed while the president of Ghana from 2012 to end of 2016?

Despite the economic challenges Ghana is currently going through which are not peculiar to her but a worldwide phenomenon if fellow Ghanaians care to know, Dr Bawumia is far better a candidate to rule Ghana than his rival Mr Mahama.

Fellow Ghanaians don’t let NDC weaponise the depreciation of the Ghana Cedi against the American dollar to discredit Dr Bawumia and NPP to win your votes and confidence so cheaply. Don’t hand your votes to them on a silver platter following the lies they tell you which are however cloaked as truth.

Ask them and yourself if the NDC and Mr Mahama could do things differently better if they were in power and faced with same Covid-19 pandemic, Russia-Ukraine war, and horrifying threats to world peace as are ongoing, impacting on world economy?

When Mr Mahama goes abroad and gets interviewed by foreign journalists, he acknowledges the causes of economic challenges to the world economy and those of all countries including Ghana as principally the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war.

However, when he is in Ghana, he takes away those causes but pins the origin of the problems down to the incompetence, mismanagement and uncontrolled corruption by the president and his government.

Yes, official corruption may be a contributing factor, why does he refuse to acknowledge the impact of the mentioned major problems above?

Is he not seeking to play cheap politics, lying to the people in the hope of turning their hearts toward him to vote for him?

Has he not said he will tell half-truths during elections provided that can convince the electorate and turn their hearts toward him to vote for him?

Fellow Ghanaians, please don’t vote for such a discredited person but Dr Bawumia who is currently overflowing with ideas that stand the chance of helping develop Ghana in the absence of a visionary autocrat befitting the nature of Ghanaians.

NDC and a presidential candidate supportive of any evil act that will bring their political rivals down to pave the way for them to assume power are not fit to be in government. The NDC and Mr John Dramani Mahama are not interested in the collective welfare of the people and the prosperity of the country but how best to acquire political power to enrich themselves as individuals.

Assuming NPP are not good, if that is your opinion, then NDC and John Mahama are not the alternative, if you care to know.