Former Member of Parliament (MP) for the Subin constituency, Mr Isaac Osei, has called on the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegates in the Ashanti Region to vote massively for Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia in the party’s upcoming presidential primaries.
Mr. Osei who was said to be the darling ‘boy’ of former President John Agyekum Kufuor served as Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board as well as one time Ghana’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK) under the previous NPP government.
He described Vice President Bawumia as an extremely humble person, an intelligent and astute economist.
According to him, the admires Dr. Bawumia’s respect for views of others and his conscious effort throughout his campaign not to use insults but to stick to debating issues of national interest.
Mr. Isaac Osei wooed party delegates when he joined the campaign team of the Vice President at the Subin constituency last Thursday as part of Dr. Bawumia’s two-week tour of the Ashanti Region to engage party delegates ahead of the party’s super delegates conference on 26 August and presidential primaries on 4 November 2023.
“I came from Accra to join our distinguished personality, Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia here at Subin in the Ashanti Region.
“I recall that not so long ago, while I was home, I got notified that the Vice President would like to see me. I decided to prepare, dress up so I could set off to see him wherever he may be.
“As I made my way down from upstairs in my home, to my pleasant surprise, there sat the Vice President right in my living room. This kind of humility is one of a kind. The NPP needs a humble man for the fight ahead of her,” Mr. Isaac Osei recounted.
Economist extraordinaire
Speaking on the economic prowess of Vice President Bawumia, Mr. Isaac Osei observed that as an economist himself, he can, without a shadow of doubt, describe Dr. Bawumia as the economist of economists.
“I studied economics, and I did that to a very advanced stage. I can tell you on authority that the Vice President is a highly qualified economist, and he is an extremely brilliant one at that (he is as sharp as fire),” the former Ambassador stressed.
“If the NPP has such a humble personality, a God-fearing person who is endowed with wisdom from God and at the same time hardworking, the party could not have asked for a better candidate,” he added.
Issues, not insults
Mr. Isaac Osei noted that the Vice President has focused on issues ever since he announced his desire to contest in the NPP flagbearership race.
“Throughout his campaign, he has not insulted anyone under any circumstances.
“He has in his campaign, identified himself with all the good things that the Akufo-Addo government has achieved and has also accepted the administration’s shortcomings unlike others who were in government but have decided to disassociate themselves with the record of the current administration in public,” the former COCOBOD CEO pointed out.
“I urge you to give consideration to all that I have told you about the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and vote massively for him [in the upcoming super delegates conference and subsequently in the presidential primaries so he can lead our party to the next level in its political history,” Mr Isaac Osei reiterated.
Meeting delegates
Vice President Bawumia began engaging directly with delegates of the NPP about two weeks ago since.
He toured all 34 constituencies in the Greater Accra Region and has since the 6 July 2023 turned his attention to the 47 constituencies in the Ashanti Region.