In the 2007 NPP Presidential Primaries which was to determine the Party’s flagbearer for the 2008 elections, what was supposed to be a healthy intra-party exercise, degenerated into a bitter name-calling and smear campaign which the party is yet to fully recover from, 13 whole years later.
It appears there is another bitter power struggle looming, though these are still early days yet.
A few hours after embarrassing the President and the Party hierarchy by voting for the opposition NDC’s preferred candidate for Speaker of Parliament, the biggest embarrassment was yet to come, as someone mischievously presented the name of Vice President Bawumia’s first wife, Ramatu Bawumia to the speaker of Parliament in place of Hajia Samira, who accompanied the Vice President.
There were rumours in 2012 that Dr Bawumia had abandoned his first wife on the flimsy excuse that she was illiterate and less refined, and could not match his new political status, a claim which till date remains nothing but an unfounded rumour.
For someone to mischievously sneak the name of this innocent woman, who i bet many Ghanaians do not even know about to be acknowledged by the unsuspecting Speaker of Parliament at such a high profile event is definitely the work of insiders.
Lets brace ourselves Ghanaians, it appears the NPP’s internal power struggle this time around will be more intense and dirtier than the one we saw in 2007.
