The NPP will win the December 7 election on the basis of its record in government over the past eight years, the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has said.

“What I see on my tour of the country indicates that NPP will win the elections on December 7, 2024 and this is underpinned by the work the NPP had done,” he emphasised and said when the government promised free SHS in 2016, the former President said it was not possible but he told him it was possible.

Market campaign

Dr Bawumia, who stated this when he addressed traders at Okaishie in the Central Business District of Accra on his campaign tour last Tuesday, said he (Bawumia) meant business and therefore assured the traders they (traders) would be his priority should he become President of the country.

He told the traders that as part of his policies to minimise their burden and to enable them to conduct their business with ease, he intended to introduce a flat rate tax system for all imports.

In that regard, he said he would grant a tax amnesty so that all taxpayers would begin on a clean slate, and also announced his women's trade empowerment fund which would cushion women traders.
 

Number one

Shouts of “number one”, “It is possible”, “Free SHS,” and other policies of the government reverberated every market Dr Bawumia and his entourage visited in Accra including the Tuesday market at Mamprobi, 31st December market, Okaishie and Kantamanto.

Dr Bawumia first visited the “Tuesday market” at Mamprobi in the Ablekuma South Constituency at about 10:00a.m., where he was mobbed by enthusiastic supporters of the party and other market women amid handshakes, singing and chants of “Number one.”

He was accompanied by the aspiring NPP Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ablekuma South Constituency, Samuel Sarbah Lartey, and other national and regional executives of the party.

The possibilities bus from the “Tuesday market” at Mamprobi moved to the 31st December market at Makola, where Dr Bawumia spent much time interacting with traders, many of whom were visibly in high spirits as they danced, cheered and shouted “Number one.”

Paraphernalia

Some of the market women could not help but scramble for party paraphernalia thereby compelling some NPP supporters to remove their T-shirts and give them out.

With support from the NPP parliamentary candidate for Odododiodio, Dr Bawumia called on the traditional leaders of Okaishie after which he addressed a crowd of traders to sell his “bold solutions” to them.