Kwadwo Mpiani, former Chief of Staff under former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s administration and a known member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has criticised Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s ‘thank you tour’ and questioned the rationale behind it.
According to him, the tour is a misplaced priority. “The whole exercise is misplaced. What are we going to thank them for? For not voting for us, or what? So I don’t think this is the time for this kind of exercise,” he said on JoyNews’ The Pulse on Tuesday, 29th April.
He argued that the tour is unnecessary given the party’s poor performance in the 2024 elections. Instead, he believes the focus should be on understanding the reasons behind the defeat and addressing the issues that contributed to it.
“Because we performed so miserably in this election, we have set up a committee to tour the country to investigate what went wrong. I believe the first thing we should do, after identifying the reasons for the party’s sorry state, is not to go out thanking people. The most important thing is to understand what happened and take decisive action,” he stated.
Dr Bawumia, the 2024 flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), has commenced a ‘thank-you tour’ following the party’s landslide defeat in the 2024 general elections.
According to the party, the tour forms part of efforts to rebuild and re-energise the party ahead of the 2028 elections, while also appreciating the contributions of party members during the last campaign.
The tour comes on the heels of a report by a 12-member committee, chaired by former Speaker of Parliament, Prof Mike Oquaye, which was established to investigate the reasons behind the party’s electoral loss.
The party declined to make the contents of the report public.
