The 2024 Vice Presidential Candidate of the (NPP), Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has dismissed claims that he has 'ditched' Dr Mahamudu Bawumia in favour of .

In an interview with 1957, an online blogging platform, Dr Prempeh described the rumours as mischievous propaganda engineered to sow division and escalate tensions within the NPP. "Ditching Dr Bawumia would amount to the greatest act of ingratitude in my life," he stated emphatically. "How can I be ungrateful to Dr Bawumia after he selected me as his running mate?

What kind of person would that make me?" he questioned.

NAPO added, "My biggest priority right now is the unity of our party so we can return from opposition to government in record time.