MUSAH SUPERIOR CALLS FOR RETENTION OF NANA/BAWUMIA TICKET

MUSAH SUPERIOR CALLS FOR RETENTION OF NANA/BAWUMIA TICKET

The New Patriotic Party cleared the hurdle of electing its flag bearer for elections 2012 by overwhelmingly retaining its 2008 flag bearer, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo Addo at the just ended expanded delegates congress to lead the party to victory come 2012.
But the daunting task ahead of the NPP is the selection of Nana Addos’ running mate which some interested groups in the party have started campaigning for their favorite candidates.
Whereas some leading members of the party are calling for Nana Addo/Alan Kyeremanteng ticket, others are of the view that the party should maintain its trade mark of choosing a northerner to seal the deal which could demystify the widespread misconception that the NPP is an Akan party.
Latest to join the bandwagon is London based leading member of the NPP, Iddrisu Musah Superior who is calling for retention of the Nana Addo and Mahamud Bawumia ticket for solid victory in 2012.
Iddrisu Musah Superior describes the Nana Addo/Bawumia Ticket as a perfect combination and warns that any attempt to change the ticket might create damages to the NPP’s forward march to wrestle power from the NDC in 2012.
Buttressing his point, he said the NPP needed no change to the 2008 ticket since that was what gave the party upper hand over the NDC during the first round with 49.77%.
“Our great party does not need to look elsewhere to choose a qualified running mate to partner Nana Addo our flagbearer when Dr. Mahamud Bawumia is already marketed, tested and proven to be a good Vice President,” Superior explained.

According to Iddrisu Musah Superior who is lacing his boots to contest the Tamale Central Constituency seat in 2012, retaining Nana Addo and Dr. Bawumia will confirm the NPP’s consistency and appreciation to the two gentle men who led the party into the 2008 and narrowly lost to the NDC.

“We have to celebrate their achievement, encourage and support this viable ticket: I also argue that the Nana/Bawumia partnership is very well known by Ghanaians,” he maintained.

He said retaining the old ticket will as well save the party from creating division over the selection of a new running mate to partner Nana Addo for the 2012 elections.

“Bawumia’s retention is hugely significant as the election of Nana Addo: I hope Nana and the Party would accept him on the Presidential ballot for the greater interest of the Party as we get set to re-introduce the Party to the people Ghana,” Superior stressed .

He rubbished the calls for South/south ticket and hinted that it will be politically suicidal if the party leadership heeds to such calls and that such a situation will create more room for the NDC to say the NPP is not northern friendly.

Musah Superior said Ghana needed a world renowned economist like Dr. Bawumia to salvage the dwindling economy from total collapse due to the NDC’s mismanagement of the nation’s scarce resources.