If Bawumia loses, the NPP Eastern Regitional Chairman promises not to back the Muslim presidential candidate.

In the event that the Muslim community in the nation fails to elect Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the party's flagbearer, as president in the 2024 elections, Jeff Konadu-Addo, the Eastern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has declared that he will never back any Muslim presidential candidate who might emerge from the party.

He claims that the NPP has done well by discrediting critics who said the party did not back Muslim candidates by garnering a sizable majority of votes for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Ghana's vice president. He proposed that Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia should be elected president in order to support the Muslim community.

Failure on their part, however, will mean that he will not back any other Muslim candidate from the party. "I am telling you the truth," he said in an interview on Neat FM on October 31, 2024, "because Bawumia is a Zongo person and has lived in Zongo. If we go to the polls and, even though he is a Muslim, he loses in the Zongos, the Northern region, and the Islamic part of Ghana. It's okay if you misinterpret me. I won't back a Muslim candidate for president if that occurs and they let Bawumia down the same way they did the last time they ran. No.

Thus, I am informing the Muslim community that this is their first opportunity to demonstrate their ability to elect a Muslim to the presidency of Ghana. Even Christians now support Bawumia, therefore in the event that Muslims fail to bring him and he loses an election in a Muslim-majority area, do you think I will ever support another Muslim again? No, I won't do that as you'll let him down too.

In the meanwhile, if Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia wins the 2024 elections, he has pledged to run the nation according to his own principles. The National Democratic Congress (NDC), the largest opposition party, is running against him in the election.