Source: Africa Publicity
Member of Parliament for Abetifi Constituency and a flagbearer aspirant of Ghana’s opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Bryan Acheampong, has said he told ex-Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to consider the interest of the NPP and exit the Party’s presidential candidate election.
Dr. Acheampong made this known in an interview on Accra-based Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana program with Paul Adom-Otchere on Thursday, December 18, 2025.
He said his advise to Dr. Bawumia was due to what he saw to structural challenges within the NPP.
Dr. Acheampong claimed that those structural challenges could adversely affect the NPP’s chances of winning Ghana’s 2028 general elections if Bawumia remains the flagbearer of the party.
According to Dr. Acheampong, “Those structural challenges are in addition to what he Mussa Dankwah does not know, the ones that I compiled and reached out to the candidate and said ‘look we will have challenges if we continue like this and therefore if you consider the interest of the party and bow out, that will be great for us so that we can find a new candidate and press on.”
He added that “But then also the perceived division, the supporters of himself and that of Kennedy Agyapong was emerging. It was very clear to me that it was going to take us into 2028, and it will not give us the opportunity of winning that election and you know if we do not win, we are in serious trouble.”
Dr. Bawumia led the NPP into the 2024 presidential election but lost miserably to then opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, John Dramani Mahama.
During the NPP’s 2023 presidential primaries, Dr. Acheampong supported Dr. Bawumia.
But he has since stopped supporting Dr. Bawumia and has entered the race himself.
Dr. Acheampong explained that his decision to stop supporting Dr. Bawumia was made despite attempts by Former Second Lady Samira Bawumia to persuade him to remain with her husband’s campaign.
