Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has said members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are no longer as confident of winning the 2024 election as they were a year ago.

He said, “So far, the narrative has changed, and the momentum is now on our side. It is clear, and our opponents a year ago seemed confident, but today, rather than being confident, they seem very angry as they see themselves losing this election.”

Bawumia was the first candidate to file his nomination papers on 9 September 2024 to officially contest the 2024 presidential election at the Electoral Commission’s headquarters.

Addressing party sympathizers at the NPP’s headquarters on Monday (9 September), Bawumia called on all supporters of the party to “work hard and come together, unified in every constituency and every electoral area, every polling station to make sure to bring out our people on the day and to let people see what the NPP has done.”

He gave an analogy of a bad driver and a good driver, describing himself as the “mate” of the good driver who is ready to take over from his boss.

He threw some jabs at the former president, John Mahama, saying, “And now we want to move this country into a digital age, and you say we should go back to ‘nkoko nketenkete [small chicks], we should go back to a time where we couldn’t afford chalk in schools.”

“Today, if he doesn’t know, we are giving laptops to senior high school students. He wants nkoko nketenkete and 24-hour disco. Is that how we are going to transform Ghana? No, the bus is in Walewale, and the mate is going to take it from Walewale and get to Paga and beyond, and we will transform this country.”