The second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu otherwise known as Joe Wise has revealed that Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has the support of over hundred NPP MPs to lead the party in 2024 polls.
The Vice President is one of the personalities seeking to lead the NPP as flagbearer in the 2024 elections.
And according to Joe Wise, majority of the NPP lawmakers including himself support the presidential bid of Dr Bawumia ahead of Alan Kyeremanten and Kennedy Agyapong who have all declared their intensions to contest for the top position.
“Most of the NPP MPs at the last count were about 118 MPs and I am one of them. I speak for myself and my support for Bawumia, and I know over 100 NPP MPs also support Bawumia,” Joe Wise said on Oyerepa FM.
He indicated that declaring his support for Bawumia does not violate the party’s order against active campaigning because most of the presidential candidates themselves have started campaigning.
He disclosed again that the leadership of the party itself have called him to organise delegates in his constituency to meet some of the presidential hopeful including Kennedy Agyapong.
Joewise also refuted the assertion that the declaration of support to persons who will be contesting in the presidential primaries, which is slated for November 4, 2023, will divide the NPP.
Meanwhile, former Trade and Industry Minister Alan Kyerematen Assin, Central MP Ken Agyapong, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the former Food and Agriculture Minister Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, ex-Mampong MP Francis Addai-Nimoh, and former Regional Cooperation Minister Dr. Kofi Konadu Apreku have all declared to contest for the party’s flagbearership position.
