U.S.-based Ghanaian social media personality cum Uber driver, Afia Schwarzenegger, has absolved former Vice President, Dr. Mahamudua Bawumia, of any blame in relation to the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP)’s loss in the 2024 elections.
Bawumia led the NPP to the largest defeat in Ghanaian electoral politics since 1996 when he was soundly beaten by President John Dramani Mahama by 56% to 41% in thee 2024 elections.
Following the elections, some NPP supporters and party officials have called on Bawumia to step aside and not contest for the flagbearership in 2028, arguing that he has been rejected by Ghanaians and therefore can no longer lead the NPP.
Afia, reacting to those claims, said Bawumia was completely blameless in the NPP’s defeat. Afia laid the blame for the defeat squarely at the feet of other NPP top officials, namely former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Ghana’s unofficial Prime Minister during the NPP regime, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko.
She also named Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP, Bernard Antwi Boasiako aka Chairman Wontumi, and former Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), Kennedy Agyapong.
Schwarzenegger said the arrogance, tone deafness, economic mismanagement, and other ‘sins’ of the NPP led to their defeat and had nothing to do with Bawumia.
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