The Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, has advised the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, not to contest for the flagbearership position of the New Patriotic Party(NPP).
According to him, there has been no respect for him over the past few years due to some numerous failed promises by the Akufo-Addo government.
Speaking on Alhaji and Alhaji on Pan African TV on Saturday, January 15, 2022, he said that Bawumia’s campaign will however suffer major setbacks based on his inability to live up to the ‘economic Messiah’ status that he was projected to for the 2016 elections and subsequent elections.
He therefore added that, Bawumia’s political career may end if he fails to listen to his advice.
“Somebody must spend some effort to rescue the image of the vice president. Somebody who loves the Vice President must get closer and advise him to save himself the embarrassment. Forget about those who sit on television and comment on national situations. Walk into the street, engage the gardeners, the watchmen and raise the name of the Vice President…do you hear what they say about him? If he were my brother I’ll be pained”.
“I am pained because he is my Vice President and I think he must be saved for himself because where his image is getting to, it’s worrying. Somebody must advise him, somebody must help him…because it should not happen to anybody, what is happening to the Vice President…it should not happen to anybody even if he himself is a major contributor to that development because some of the things that are being said about him I cannot repeat on air….I cannot…I dare not because they are horrible,” Kwesi Pratt Jnr said.
He however continued by saying that, “even if his supporters win…they manage through all the manipulations and so on and make him the candidate for the New Patriotic Party…he would have become the candidate for the New Patriotic Party…how is he going out the to campaign giving the things he told us?”