‘Dr. Pink Sheet’ Partners Nana

Date published: October 27, 2014
By Mohammed Awal
awalm19@gmail.com
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has once more put his trust in Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia to aid him in his search for the formula to reach the Jubilee House.

Yesterday, the man who has been given a fresh mandate to lead the Elephant Family into the 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary elections met the key players in the party and named Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, as his running mate into the elections.

In 2008 and 2012, and again in 2012, Nana Akufo Addo put his trust in Dr. Bawumia, who was the star witness in the NPP electoral petition before the Supreme Court that took eight months to prosecute.

After convincing party authorities of his running mate’s credentials, Nana Akufo-Addo assured Ghanaians that the NPP was ready to wrest power from the incompetent National Democratic Congress (NDC) with “Mahamudu by my side.”

Eulogizing Dr. Bawumia’s astuteness as an economist and a politician, Nana Addo said his running mate’s credentials as a top notch economist, were omnipresent.

These perceptions, he told the leadership of the party, have been reinforced by his “analytical work and performance in this sector in the past five years which has earned him the sobriquet of Dr. Prophet.

“It has been a joy to see him blossom as a consummate politician and win the affection of Ghanaians… and we all know how the nation took to his performance in the witness box in the Supreme Court during the historic election petition… Dr. Pinksheet is yet another of his name,” said the excited NPP 2016 flagbearer.

Nana Addo Akufo-Addo, who was given a resounding endorsement – 94.3% of the valid votes cast by the NPP Electoral College – made no secret of his desire to re-nominate Bawumia as his running mate. “There is real chemistry between the two of us,” he said.

According to the new leader of the NPP, the economy was always going to be the main battle ground for the 2016 elections. The dire situation that the nation has been plunged into by the incompetent NDC regime makes the presence of Dr. Bawumia on the NPP presidential ticket even more appropriate.

“I am confident that he will make an outstanding Vice President of the Republic and very good manager of the economy, who will help me reverse the decline of the economy, if Almighty God and the Ghanaian people favour us with the opportunity of service, come January 2017,” Nana Addo declared, cheered on by the large partisan crowd.

In his acceptance remark, Dr. Bawumia said the suffering that Ghanaians were going through under the NDC was needless.

The NPP, he stated emphatically, refuse to accept this hopeless situation assuring the long suffering masses that he would help in every capacity he could to ensure that the NDC was booted out of power come 2016 and restore hope.
Thanking Nana Addo and the party hierarchy for the confidence they have reposed in him,

Dr. Bawumia said: “No candidate in our political landscape has demonstrated this consistency and faith in his running mate and I am truly grateful once again for the opportunity to partner him to restore hope to the Ghanaian people and to deliver a competent and honest leadership which can alleviate the undeserved suffering of the Ghanaian people.”

He  called on Ghanaians to support the NPP to win the 2016 elections so they could collectively build a nation  that “we can all be proud of and a nation where every person,  desirous of working will find the skills and employment with a decent wage; a Ghana where we do not only build a future for our youth, but also build our youth for the future; a Ghana where the basics like water, electricity and sanitation are available; a Ghana where our hard-working entrepreneurs can easily access capital; a Ghana where our young people will be well-educated and empowered to better compete in the global economy.”

Nana Addo, his running and the entire leadership of the NPP are expected to attend this afternoon’s prayer at the Abbosey Okai Central Mosque in Accra, to pray with the Chief Imam for God’s blessings.

On Tuesday November 4, 2014, the Party will hold an inter-denominational service at the National Theatre, “to seek God’s blessings on the Party and on our ticket, and to thank Him for the peace and success of the primary,” Nana Akufo-Addo announced.