Some men of God have visited Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia at his home and his office a couple of days after winning the flagbearer elections of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Dr Bawumia beat Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP) Kennedy Ohene Agyapong and two others – Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto and Ing. Francis Addai-Nimoh – by 61.47 percent to become the 2024 flagbearer of the ruling party.
The elections were held on Saturday, November 4, 2023.
Many have called on him to congratulate him for this feat, becoming the first Muslim to lead a major political party in Ghana.
Party leadership on Sunday, November 5 visited him to congratulate him.
A guard of honour was also mounted by staff of his office at the Jubilee House on Monday, November 6 to welcome him back to work.
Staff at the Office of the Vice President were clad in all-white apparels to welcome him after his victory in the presidential primaries.
On Tuesday, November 7, two separate groups of clergymen called on him.
One from the Ashanti Region paid a courtesy call on the Vice President at his residence in Cantonments and the other, Anglican Diocese of Accra, visited him at the Jubilee House.
They were there to congratulate him on the weekend’s victory.
“I truly appreciate this gesture, and this will further deepen my longstanding close relationship with the church and deepen religious tolerance in Ghana,” Dr Bawumia wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday.
Today, two separate groups of clergymen from the Ashanti region and Anglican Diocese of Accra respectively visited me at home and the Jubilee House to congratulate me as the flagbearer of the @NPP_GH.
I truly appreciate this gesture, and this will further deepen my longstanding… pic.twitter.com/w4MOaa74VS
— Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia (@MBawumia) November 7, 2023
He has promised to be a man with “my own vision and priority”, promising: “I will listen to your concerns because we are partners in its process”.