Watch the trending video of Bryan Acheampong engaging in tribal bigotry to sway voters against Bawumia

The Member of Parliament for Abetifi and New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful, Dr. Bryan Acheampong, has linked the party’s defeat in the 2024 presidential election to the tribe of its candidate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, and the long-standing Bawku chieftaincy conflict.

Speaking to party members, Dr. Acheampong argued that Dr. Bawumia’s Mamprusi background cost the NPP significant votes in many parts of the country due to the conflict between the Mamprusis and Kusasis.

He claimed that constituencies and regions where the party had performed strongly under former presidents John Agyekum Kufuor and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo were lost because of the tribal tensions tied to the candidate.

“President Kufuor won all NPP votes in Kusasi, and President Akufo-Addo also did the same thing, but because the fight is between two tribes (Mamprusis and Kusasis) and we elected a flagbearer from one of them, we lost in the Oti Region, Upper East, Upper West, and the Northern Region.

We lost all our seats because of the candidate we presented (Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia), and he could be a victim of circumstance and not his fault, but the timing didn’t favour him,” he stated.

The Abetifi legislator, however, emphasized that Dr. Bawumia should not be personally blamed since he was only a “victim of circumstances.”

Dr. Acheampong further urged NPP members not to allow emotions to influence their choice of a presidential candidate for the 2028 election. He insisted that the party must rally behind a candidate capable of securing victory in the December 7, 2028 polls…CONTINUE MORE READING>>>

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