Alhaji Mohammed Limuna Muniru, a former minister of food and agriculture, has asked NDC delegates in the Savannah Region to overwhelmingly support John Dramani Mahama’s bid to represent the party as its flagbearer in the 2024 elections.
He asserted that the party’s ward, branch, and constituency executives in the seven Savannah Region constituencies—the former president’s home region—must make an effort to cast 100% of their votes for their deserving son, who has shown to the entire world that, given the chance once more, he would lead Ghana back to the path of long-term development and prosperity as intended.
The former agriculture minister has a strong belief that the Savannah Region is where the NDC and John Dramani Mahama’s victory in the 2024 elections must begin, according to Mumini Yahaha Zambache, better known by his stage name Kiyoyo, who delivered the former minister’s plea on Damongo-based Kasha FM.
The young, bright NDC communication officer took advantage of the occasion to emphasize the previous president’s “unique and unparalleled” infrastructure development in the Savannah Region, including projects for schools, roads, hospitals, electricity expansion, and water, among other things.
In addition, he praised the former president’s human capital development, describing it as unparalleled in the political history of the Savannah Region and stating that he was a gift from God to the Ghanaian people.
For the nation’s rescue operation in 2024, he asserts that the party must remain unified before, during, and after the presidential and legislative primaries.
The National Democratic Congress has set May 13, 2023, as the date for its presidential and parliamentary primaries.
John Dramani Mahama, a former president who has successfully passed screening and been nominated for office, is vying with Kojo Bonsu, a former Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly MCE, and Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, a former finance minister, to represent the party as its presidential candidate in the general elections of 2024.
Businessman Ernest Kwaku Kobeah, the fourth contender, withdrew from the race before voting was completed and vowed his support for former president Mahama, who is widely predicted to win the polls by a wide margin.
In the most recent presidential primaries held in February 2019, ex-President John Dramani Mahama, who campaigned on a platform of unity, won with a commanding 213,487 votes, representing 95.23% of the total votes cast to represent the party, with the other six contenders managing the remaining 4.77% of the votes.
Former president John Dramani Mahama received a record 5,004 votes in his home region, the recently established Savannah Region, out of the 5,144 valid votes submitted, translating to 97.28 percent, placing him second in the regional endorsement league table.
The remaining 140 votes, or 2.72 percent of all valid votes cast, were split among the other contenders.