Dormaahene to Bawumia: Don’t limit selection of your running mate to Ashanti Region

Dormaahene, Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyeman Badu II, has suggested to the 2024 presidential candidate of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to consider widening his scope in search of a running mate ahead of the December elections.

The Dormaahene suggested names like Martin Adjei Korsah, Ignatius Baffour Awuah and Kwaku Agyemang-Manu as possible running mate candidates.

Speaking in a meeting between the Vice President and the Bono Regional House of Chiefs on Wednesday(8 May), the Dormaahene said failure to consider candidates from the Bono and Bono East Regions could result in decreased support from those areas.

“I know you haven’t selected a running mate yet, even if you have, I haven’t heard. Sometimes a certain region wants to prove that it is only from there that you are supposed to select your running mate.”

“But I don’t see it that way. Please, there are lots of people in the other regions. So if your focus goes on just one particular region, only they will vote for you and the rest of us will vote against you.”

“Please, I want to plead with you, for me, I am in the Bono Region, and we also have qualified candidates here. Even though I am not saying selecting others from other regions is not good, but we also want the best for our people,”

Listen to the Dormaahene in the attached video clip below: (He spoke in the Bono dialect)

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