Religion Didn’t Cause NPP’s Defeat In 2024 Elections – Bawumia
Former Vice President of Ghana and NPP flagbearer for the 2024 elections, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has described as “propaganda” claims that the NPP lost the general elections on religious grounds.
Following the NPP’s defeat in the December polls, some elements of the party claimed that they lost the elections because of the religious affiliation of their candidate with this claim purportedly aimed at discrediting the former Vice President.
Addressing NPP faithful at the party’s headquarters on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, ahead of their nationwide thanksgiving tour which begins this weekend, Dr. Bawumia dispelled the claims as baseless, stating “some people said that they didn’t vote for us because our presidential candidate was Muslim. Have you not heard that? When I heard that, I said this doesn’t make sense. This is not the Ghana that I know”.
He continued; “Because if you look at it, we went for primaries; we were 10 contestants. I was 1 Muslim and 9 Christians but the NPP voted for the 1 Muslim for the presidential candidate.”
“So that could not be the case and I decided to do some data analysis to test this hypothesis and when you look at the data, it is very clear. In many constituencies across the country, the NPP presidential candidate performed better than the Christian parliamentary candidate.
“So, it couldn’t be the case. If they were voting on religion, I shouldn’t be performing better than many of the party’s Christian parliamentary candidates.”
Dr. Bawumia also cited an example of Assin South Constituency in the Central Region where he had more votes than the parliamentary candidate who is a reverend minister.
“My good friend, Rev Ntim Fordjour, he is a reverend father but I did better than him in his constituency. He did so well and mobilised the votes for me and I thank him very much.”
The former Veep also referenced post-election researches by institutions which have all rubbished the claims of religious and tribal factors for the NPP’s defeat.
“Those issues have been ruled out in all the findings of different surveys that have been done,” Dr. Bawumia said, adding that Ghana ought to move forward devoid of tribal and religious bigotry.
“So, as a party and country, I’m very happy that religion and tribe have not entered our political discourse. We should therefore not allow people to play propaganda with religion and tribe. We are one nation. We will all love together whether we are Muslims or Christians. We will all work together for the good of this country”, he emphasized.
Source: Ghmessenger.com
