The 2024 presidential candidate of the (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has strongly condemned the use of tribal and religious bigotry against him during the party's internal contest to elect a flagbearer.
Addressing party members on Sunday, August 24, 2025, Dr Bawumia expressed concern that some presidential aspirants have resorted to propaganda rather than addressing the real reasons behind the NPP's defeat in the 2024 general elections. "As we prepare to go into the primaries, I am very, very concerned and troubled that some of our presidential aspirants have embarked on a religious and tribal bigotry and propaganda against me in a desperate attempt to win votes.
They totally ignore all the data and findings about why we lost the 2024 elections and want to mislead the delegates and the party with sad propaganda," he stated.
The former Vice President warned that such tribal and religious comments could cost the NPP support in Kusasi-dominated areas. "Since 1965, there have been 11 elections in Ghana, and if you look at the performance of our tradition in the six Bawku Zone seats, the results show that our challenges there long predate my candidacy," he explained.
