{"id":91187,"date":"2025-08-24T13:37:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T13:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=91187"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T13:37:26","slug":"what-has-changed-why-now-bawumia-responds-to-religious-and-tribal-attacks-against-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=91187","title":{"rendered":"What has changed? Why now? \u2013 Bawumia responds to religious and tribal attacks against him"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'>\n                <div class=\"twp-read-time\">\n                \t<i class=\"booster-icon twp-clock\"><\/i> <span>Read Time:<\/span>3 Minute, 18 Second                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div><div>\n<p>Former Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has sent a clear message to some his internal opponents in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential primaries, who he said have resorted to \u201cunfortunate\u201d tribal and religious campaign against him.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing party members in New York Sunday night during the 33rd Anniversary celebration of NPP USA, Dr. Bawumia expressed disbelief over the development, which he said, represented the views of only \u201cthe bigots\u201d and not the true values of the NPP.<\/p>\n<p>Before his address Sunday, a viral video of flagbearer aspirant, Bryan Acheampong, emerged, in which Acheampong told delegates that the NPP ought to change Bawumia as its presidential candidate because as a Mamprusi, the NPP lost Kusasi votes in 2024 due to the Mamprusi-Kusasi conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the NPP faithful in New York, Dr. Bawumia referenced Acheampong\u2019s comment as \u201ctribal bigotry,\u201d\u00a0 describing it as \u201cunfortunate,\u201d as well as other tribal and religious comments by other aspirants and their assigns, and wondered why his religious and tribal affiliations were being used against him now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn opponent has said delegates should not vote for me because I am Mamprusi and that we will lose votes in the Kusasi areas. This is so unfortunate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother contender against me, has also been promoting the religion card against me.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Bawumia_bigotry_not_NPP.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<p>Continuing with examples of \u201creligious and tribal bigotry\u201d against him and his family, Dr. Bawumia also referenced a recent claim by a former NPP minister and ambassador, as well as a Kennedy Agyapong campaign coordinator, Asomah-Cheremeh, who urged NPP delegates not to vote for Bawumia to become the NPP\u2019s flagbearer again because his wife, Samira, according to Asomah-Cheremeh, was not a true Ghanaian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecently, Mr. Asomah-Cheremeh, a former minister, former ambassador, and former regional chairman of Bono and a coordinator for Kennedy Agyapong has introduced a new argument into the mix.\u00a0 He says that delegates should not vote for me because my wife Samira is not a true Ghanaian. Really??? So how can we campaign to minorities in a general election? Just unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Vice President said, the bigotry has made him realise \u201dhow desperate and dangerous\u201d some of the internal opponents have become, and wondered why he and his wife did not suffer such attacks when they were working for the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was defending the party in the Supreme Court in 2013 they did not say that I was a Mamprusi, a northerner, or a Muslim,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was giving lectures and campaigning for the party to come into office in 2016, they did not say that I was a Mamprusi, a northerner, or a Muslim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen my campaign in the north made the difference in our winning the 2020 election, they did not say I was a Mamprusi, a northerner, or a Muslim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Samira was campaigning the length and breadth of Ghana for the party, they did not say she was not a true Ghanaian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what has changed? Why Now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite his disappointment in the tribal and religious campaign against him and his wife, Dr. Bawumia sounded optimistic and cautioned the \u201dtribal and religious bigots\u201d that their mission would fail because it does not represent the views of the\u00a0 NPP and \u201cthe NPP will always triumph over tribal and religious bigots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us be clear that these views do not represent the views of the rank and file of the party,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been the party that has over the years offered hope to the largest diversity of our peoples. Under our tent it has not mattered where you come from. Whether you are a Sefwi, Fante, Ewe, Ashanti, Ga-Dangbe, Krobo, Dagomba, Wala, Dagarti, Konkomba, Frafra, Kusasi or Mamprusi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has not mattered what religion you practice (Whether you are a Christian, Muslim or a traditional African religious practitioner). 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Why now? - Bawumia responds to religious and tribal attacks against him\">Former Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has sent a clear message to some his internal opponents in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential primaries, who he said have resorted to &#8220;unfortunate&#8221; tribal and religious campaign against him.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1900,1883,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hp-news-2","category-national","category-politics","category-popular"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}