The 2024 Presidential Applicant of the NDC, speaking at a acquisition in Bawku, declared that he would abutment the bodies of Bawku in establishing their own region, emphasizing that in agreement of population, the Bawku ascendancy surpasses the North East Region, the arena of the NPP's 2024 Presidential Candidate, Dr. Alhaji Mahamadu Bawumia.
Additionally, Mr. Mahama accent that the landmass of the Bawku breadth is commensurable to that of the North East Region.
"If you attending at the North East, I accept the citizenry in the Bawku area, encompassing these 6 constituencies, acceptable exceeds that of the North East; I do not accept the exact figures. And if you accede the acreage size, it is commensurable to that of the North East," he declared to applause.
However, Dr. Shani Bawumia, speaking to the media, appropriate that above President Mahama's comments were divisive, pointing out that comparing the citizenry sizes of the North East Arena and the six constituencies in the Bawku ascendancy created analysis and worsened the aegis bearings in Bawku.
He acicular out that the NDC presidential applicant had incorrect advice and advance falsehoods to allay the bodies of Bawku, abacus that the allegory fabricated by Mr. Mahama amid the North East Arena and the Bawku ascendancy on citizenry admeasurement during the acquisition was unnecessary.
"Firstly, the North East Arena is beyond than the Upper East Arena in agreement of acreage size. The North East covers a absolute breadth of 9,070 km², while the Upper East Arena covers a absolute acreage breadth of 8,842 km2. In agreement of population, the Upper East Arena has a absolute citizenry of about 1.3 actor people, while the North East Arena has about 700,000 people. So clearly, Mr. Mahama had ambiguous motives," he explained.
The NPP affiliate additionally accent that alike the acreage admeasurement of the Mamprugu Mo'aduri commune and West Mamprusi Municipality in the North East Arena abandoned is beyond than the absolute Bawku enclave: "the six districts in the Bawku breadth calm awning a absolute acreage breadth of 4,374 km2, while Mamprugu Mo'aduri and West Mamprusi abandoned awning 4,892 km2. Did above President Mahama not apperceive this?" he questioned.
Dr. Shani emphasized that there is annihilation amiss with creating a arena for the Bawku ascendancy out of the Upper East Region, but unfortunately, "Mr. Mahama is manipulating people's affections aloof to achieve the presidency, and that is actual dangerous, abnormally in Bawku. He (John Mahama) is base the animation of the arena to sow analysis and accretion power."