The most credible Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has denied having British citizenship. This claim is bolstered by information about the vice president on the British government’s Companies House website, where Dr. Bawumia is listed as indicating that he is a Brit.
However, the vice president has said that part of the information on the website is incorrect. According to him, he indicated unequivocally that he is a Ghanaian on the document he filled out for Companies House when he was the director of the Ghana International Bank, a subsidiary of the Bank of Ghana in London, UK. A copy of Dr. Bawumia’s Companies House form from 2006, which the vice president’s office provided, revealed that he wrote that he was Ghanaian.
Except for his nationality and the day he resigned, which were not on the form, all of Dr. Bawumia’s details captured on the website matched what he entered on the information form. GhanaWeb has sought out to Companies House and the British High Commission in Accra for explanation, but neither has answered. The vice president’s profile on the Companies House website included information about his time as a director of the Ghana International Bank. It stated that the Ghana International Bank was still operating in the United Kingdom, but that Dr. Bawumia had quit as director. On October 18, 2006, he was appointed, and on April 15, 2009, he resigned.
House No. 48, 6th Estate Road, Kanda Estates, Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana was listed as his address. The vice president’s occupation was listed as banker, and he was British.
The vice president’s bid to lead the New Patriotic Party (NPP) into the 2024 elections has received the support of the party’s overseas supporters. The “Diaspora4Bawumia” organisation is pleading with their party’s delegates to support Dr. Bawumia, who will be running for president alongside his wife, the Second Lady Samira Bawumia. They think the couple will make outstanding leaders who will significantly improve Ghana. They also believed the Second Lady is the kind of instrumental woman that the nation needs to support her husband to bring development.
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In the realm of potential first ladies actively engaged in campaign platforms for either the NPP or NDC, Samira Bawumia stands out alongside Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings. Her captivating presence ignited tremendous enthusiasm during the NPP rallies of the 2016 and 2020 campaigns. The 2024 campaign would be very exciting to have Samira Bawumia going after Mahama as a potential First Lady. Dr Mahamudu Bawumia must win the NPP’s presidential primaries to make this happen.
NDC ran more efficient campaigns when Rawlings and his wife Nana Konadu led separate teams to criss-cross the whole country. While Rawlings led a group of party stalwarts in the south, Nana Konadu met women in the north with her 31st December Women’s Wing of the party. Those were crowd-pulling days for NDC, and their rallies were ecstatic with party supporters and floating voters. However, with Dr Bawumia and Samira, the table turns in favour of the NPP.
In 2020, Mahama leveraged his female vice-presidential candidate to gain more support from women, akin to Nana Konadu’s contributions to Rawlings and the NDC. With Dr Bawumia as the presidential candidate, Samira’s efforts will intensify to counter Jane Naana’s campaign in the event she partners with Mahama again. Moreover, if Jane does not join forces with Mahama in the 2024 elections, Samira will make deeper inroads into NDC’s strongholds. None of the ten presidential candidates possesses a dynamic campaigning spouse capable of executing this strategic endeavour to break the eight.
Samira’s youthful charisma, persuasive abilities, and fashionable allure will attract the gatherings of young Ghanaians, particularly young women. Her influence will be instrumental in winning over Zongo women, galvanizing support from the youth, and appealing to the general voting populace on behalf of the NPP. A remarkable surge of lady-led campaign groups will emerge to rally behind Samira, promoting Dr Bawumia and the NPP. She will not only be a firebrand campaigner for her husband and the party but also an essential asset in Dr Bawumia’s potential presidency.
Ghana is poised to witness an exceptional duo reminiscent of the experience of Barack and Michelle Obama as the first gentleman and first lady. It would be an experience to behold. Dr Bawumia must win, and this is re-echoed in the voice of the Diaspora.
Diaspora4DMB!
Diaspora4Bawumia!
The Diaspora Voice!
Kwasi Owusu-Afriyie – Finland (Comms & Research Director, Disapora4DMB)
Kingsley Ahenkora-Duodu – UK (Chairman, Diaspora4DMB)
The most credible Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia gave the 82-year-old woman a two-bedroom house as a present in September 2020, but she has since passed away.
After the Vice President saw a JoyNews documentary by Seth Kwame Boateng called “Withered Skins” that featured Daari Pogo, he took notice of her situation. Madam Poga, who lived on the outskirts of Gurungu in the Upper West district, lost four of her ten children and was abandoned by the rest, so she was left to live with her granddaughter Adjara in a decaying five by six metre mud home.
The Vice President came to her aid by providing food and toiletries among other things in less than 24 hours after her story was broadcast on all JoyNews platforms.
He then made the commitment to construct Madam Pogo a respectable house. The two-bedroom home was built and equipped in less than six weeks before being delivered to Madam Daari. Dr. Bawumia expressed his deep regret upon learning of the now 85-year-old woman’s passing in a Facebook post today.
I have served and worked for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and I am yet to find someone who is in a better position to excel and succeed as leader of our party and country at this point in time.
The Vice President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, is such a towering figure in our political space who is endowed with huge and enormous potentials needed to lead our country at a time that the world is going through economic turmoil.
I make this bold statement as a grassroot politician who knows our political climate very well, and as a political aide to wontumi.
It is against this background that I urge all in the region and beyond to support our hardworking Vice President for him to be elected as the president of Ghana
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says Africa is open for business and committed to creating a more integrated, dynamic and prosperous continent through trade partnerships and investments. He, therefore, urged African governments and businesses to work together to promote this unique potential to attract foreign investment and create sustainable partnerships that would benefit the continent and its international partners. “Ghana is proud of being at the forefront in this network and we look forward to working amongst partners worldwide to create a more equitable and sustainable future,” he said. Vice President Bawumia said this in a keynote address at the opening of the 53rd General Assembly of the World Trade Centres Association (WTCA) in Accra on Monday.
“Towards African Economic Integration and Enhanced Global Presence” is the theme for the five-day conference. The World Trade Centre, Accra is hosting the event, which attracted more than 350 delegates worldwide including captains of industries, business executives, heads of government institutions and civil society organisations. Ghana, thus, becomes the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to host the General Assembly of the WTCA, where participants would deliberate and explore trade and investment opportunities in Africa and foster partnerships.
Vice-President Bawumia commended the WTCA for launching an initiative called “Pivot to Africa” aimed at whipping up investment drive for the continent. “It comes at a time Africa is experiencing significant economic growth and transformation with immense opportunities for investment and trade,” he said. “The World Trade Centres Association recognises the enormous potential of the African market and the need to leverage it for their mutual growth.” “Ghana is fully committed to supporting this initiative and working with the World Trade Centres Association to enhance African investment and trade.” Vice President Bawumia called for concerted efforts by all stakeholders including governments, businesses and civil society to promote Africa’s unique potential to attract foreign investments and create sustainable partnerships.
Over the past six years, President Akufo-Addo unreservedly promoted Ghana and Africa beyond aid, aimed at ensuring an integrated agenda of economic independence in Africa by leveraging its natural resources for global partnerships in the best interests of the people. “Therefore, we should remain committed to free and fair trade and work together to create a level playing field for all,” Dr Bawumia said. “It is imperative for Africa to invest in innovative technology to advance its competitiveness on the global market and drive economic growth.” The Government had also established a strong foundation by leveraging on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and implementing the digitalisation agenda towards streamlining public processes and services and removing bottlenecks that impeded progress in almost all sectors of the economy. The creation of a unique identification for all Ghanaians by issuing of the Ghana-Card, mobile money interoperability payment system, which had enhanced financial inclusion, and roll-out of the digital property addressing system for easy location of properties are examples of the digitalisation drive.
The Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), Mr Wamkele Mene indicated that any continent that ignored Africa’s trade potential did so at its own peril because “the continent is the future of the world’s economy.” Through AfCFTA, Africa had taken concrete steps towards economic integration, he said and cited the establishment of the Pan African Payments and Settlement System, which ensured that businesses could engage in cross-border transactions using a digital payment system. He expressed optimism that Africa’s combined trade value would hit $16 trillion by 2050 in view of the various steps taken to integrate economically. “The doors of the continent are open for business partnerships and investments for their mutual benefits.” The Chairman of the World Trade Centres Association, Mr John E. Drew, said the world should add value to Africa’s economic opportunities to ensure growth and prosperity for all.
He assured that the WTCA would work closely with Africa productively and co-operatively to advance their cause. He entreated the participants to build strong networks and establish business partnerships towards achieving the objectives of the conference. Togbe Afede XIV, the Executive Chairman, World Trade Centre, Accra, in his welcome address, said Africa’s three billion population was a great asset and its 20 per cent coverage of the world’s land mass provided a fertile ground to feed the world.
The mineral wealth and arable land was a launching pad for the world’s food security and economic transformation. He expressed confidence that with the integration process progressing steadily, Africa would soon increase its current two and three per cent global trade and gross domestic product to a reasonable level.
The most credible Vice President, Mahamudu Bawumia has revealed that the government has started talks with the Global Legal Entity Identification Foundation (GLEIF) to provide a single source of identity verification for businesses operating in Ghana. This comes after the Ghana Card’s successful rollout and acceptance as the nation’s sole form of identification for citizens and residents of Ghana.
Competent Bawumia
On Monday, April 24, 2023, Dr. Bawumia stated that allowing Ghanaian businesses to participate in a universally recognised verification process would be the logical next step in the government’s integration and economic development agenda. This would give the businesses credibility and a global reach.
“We have made a great success of the Ghana Card in providing unique identity to individuals,” he noted. “We are now thinking beyond this because the case for unique identification for individuals is not just the case; it is even more important for unique identification for businesses because just as we need the confidence to know who we are dealing with, businesses also need that confidence and trust to know who they are dealing with.” He added, “And so we have started discussions with the Global Legal Entity Identity Foundation (GLEIF), to provide unique global legal identity to all businesses in Ghana. The legal entity Identifier is a unique reference code used across markets and jurisdictions to uniquely identify a legally distinct entity that engages in financial transactions. “This is an initiative driven by the G20 and the Financial Stability Board. But providing legal identity to our businesses, especially our SMEs, will make it very easy for our companies to participate fully in global economic and financial transactions.”
He asserted that “data is the new oil” and that any decision must be supported by an accurate examination of the data. “When I checked the database, I discovered that no African nation is currently a part of the Legal Entity identification scheme,” stated Dr. Bawumia. Therefore, if we sit down, we will be late once more. And it is for this reason that Ghana has begun talking about giving everyone of our enterprises a distinct legal identity so that when you deal globally, everyone knows who you are. “I believe that the AfCFTA should come on board this and let us get legal identity for all businesses across the African continent. That will make it much easier for transactions within Africa, amongst businesses and beyond because there is a single global legal identity for all businesses and that’s what we should be working towards.
“So my brother Wamkele (Mene, CEO of AfCFTA), we will talk some more about this but I think that this is where we should get forward because these are some of the micro foundations. “The lack of legal identity affects the poorer countries more than the much richer countries. And so we should take advantage of this opportunity to get it and get it for free basically for our businesses.” The General Assembly of the World Trade Center Association brings together national World Trade Centers across the globe to deliberate on ways to improve the business climate and activities of business entities, and provides members and their business networks with the opportunity to engage with each other, connect with and learn from local businesses in the hosting city, and foster partnerships word wide.
The Executive Chairman of World Trade Centre – Accra, Togbe Afede XiV, urged participants to take advantage of their presence in the “gateway to Africa” to explore the numerous opportunities on the continent, noting that with its vast arable lands, Africa could address the global challenge of food insecurity arising from the conflict in Ukraine. “Africa has great potential, and I will urge you to take advantage of your presence on the continent to engage, explore and enjoy Africa,” he added. H.E. Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, Ministers of Trade from around the world, and John Drew, Board Chairman of the World Trade Centres Association are among those attending the four-day assembly.
Technology, according to the most competent Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, is still crucial for the African continent to catch up to the developed world. This call was made in his presentation at the Harvard Law School function he attended over the weekend, on April 15.
“I shared my views on the broader theme of re-imagining Africa’s growth on our terms. I indicated that at the heart of this vision is the transformative power of technology.
Dr. Bawumia at Harvard
“In my view, the greatest bane to the development of Africa is our inability to solve the basic problems of the absence of unique identity for our population, functioning property address systems, financial inclusion, payment systems, efficient public service delivery, etc. that underpin our economic activities,” he wrote on his official Facebook page. Additionally, Bawumia urged African nations to embrace what he called the potential mindset and resist being constrained. Read his full post below: Yesterday, as the guest speaker, I addressed a gathering of students, academics and the business community at Harvard University during the African Development Conference at the Harvard Law School.
I shared my views on the broader theme of reimagining Africa’s growth on our terms. I indicated that at the heart of this vision is the transformative power of technology.
In my view, the greatest bane to the development of Africa is our inability to solve the basic problems of the absence of unique identity for our population, functioning property address systems, financial inclusion, payment systems, efficient public service delivery, etc. that underpin our economic activities.
For many years after independence we have been trying to transform our economies without data and transparent systems. Without data and systems African countries cannot participate in the fourth Industrial Revolution.
The truth is that we have for long been shackled by an impossibility mindset that is probably the result of the experience of years of slavery and colonialism. We don’t believe in ourselves. However, for us to realize our full potential and set ourselves apart we need to break the shackles of impossibility mindset and embrace the mindset of possibility. African countries can do what the advanced countries have done and more. It is possible.
Michael Omari Wadie, a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said the Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is the choice of the party.
He said the support the Vice President has within the NPP extends to the majority of Ghanaians.
Speaking on Accra FM, he said the 2024 elections will be between the competent one which is Dr. Bawumia and the incompetent one which is John Mahama.
“It is going to be a contest between the Vice President, Dr Mahamadu Bawumia, who is ‘The Competent One’ and former President John Dramani Mahama, who is also ‘The Incompetent One’,” he explained.
He said Dr Bawumia is NPP’s surest bet for victory as the majority of the party’s support base is clamouring for his appearance on the ballot paper as the flagbearer.
“I have been to all 270 constituencies across [the country] and the chorus is: ‘Let Dr Bawumia come and we will come out in our numbers to vote for him and the party to break the eight-year political jinx’,” he said.
In his view, while Dr Bawumia is incorruptible, the same cannot be said of Mr Mahama.
The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joe Osei-Owusu said majority of the members in parliament support Dr. Bawumia.
Speaking in an Oyerepa TV interview, Joseph Osei-Owusu, who is affectionately called Joewise, said that he is one of the over 100 MPs who are supporting the presidential bid of Dr Bawumia.
“Most of the NPP MPs at the last count were about 118 MPs and I am one of them. I speak for myself and my support for Bawumia, and I know over 100 NPP MPs also support Bawumia,” he told the morning show host of Kumasi-based Oyerepa TV, Kwesi Parker-Wilson.
He added that declaring his support for Bawumia does not violate the party’s order against active campaigning because most of the presidential candidates themselves have started campaigning.
Vice President Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia who is tauted as the most credible and effective politician in Ghana has stated that the Ghanaian government will completely support the newly outdoored and enskinned Prince of the Gonja Kingdom in his efforts to build the kingdom. He gave Bii-Kunuto Jawu Soale, the new Yagbonwura, the assurance that the government will support his development plans.
On March 21, 2023, at the outdooring of the newly skinned Overload of the Gonja Kingdom at the Jakpa Palace in Damongo, the Vice President made the promise. He was speaking at the time.
VP Bawumia
He emphasised the necessity for peace and togetherness as a prerequisite for the struggle against poverty and the pursuit of progress. “I want to assure him that the Government will give him the utmost cooperation in fulfilling that vision for the development of the Yagbon State…We should always remember that our enemy is poverty, and we should make sure that we come together to have development, the development we cannot have without peace. And therefore, we need to hold peace as a very high-level objective and work towards getting peace among ourselves,” he said.
The Vice President continued by saying that the establishment of the Savannah Area, which is mostly populated by the Gonja people, has resulted in noticeable progress in the region, which is clear evidence of the government’s dedication to improving the area.
Awudu Mahama, editor of the Custodian Newspaper, has noted that Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, vice president of Ghana, is roundly condemned by many Ghanaians, especially the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), who blame him for the party’s defeat.
He contends that the attacks leveled against the nation’s vice president are unjustified and excessive because they are not based on his functions and accomplishments in that capacity but rather on his political affiliation. In an interview with Samuel Eshun on the Happy Morning Show, he stated that the NDC party has struggled to retain running mates from the North throughout the years, and so are dissatisfied with Bawumia’s tenure with the NPP.
“I can understand why the NDC and those aligned with the opposition will be constantly attacking Vice President Bawumia even though he’s not the President. Because by and large, they believe being the running mate of President Akufo-Addo since 2008 has caused some defeats or more harm to them,” he said.
“This is the man President Akufo-Addo has had confidence in him, maintaining him three consecutive elections as running mate until they won and he’s done so much harm to the NDC caused their defeat and you’ll understand why they hate him that much.
H.E Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia
“When you look at the NDC and their running mates over the period, they’ve been changed. In 2000 NDC brought Martin Amidu and was changed because they felt he wasn’t good enough for the next election and brought Muhammad Mumuni in 2004.
“He was also changed because they felt he was also not good enough. In 2008 they brought John Mahama that’s the third person form the north and fortunately they won,” he added. Mr. Mahama added that despite the Vice President being accused of corruption, Bawumia’s integrity has been supported by nonpartisan organisations in Ghana.
