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Dr Mahamudu Bawumia

Date of Birth: 7/10/1963
Place of Birth: Tamale, northern Ghana


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Government pushes better economy story to swing election back to Bawumia

Until this month Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia had the unenviable job of running for the presidency as leader of the government's economic management team which has presided over the highest price hikes and interest rates for over two decades and Ghana's first default on its foreign debt since the 1980s...


Rival candidates stoke divisive rhetoric over anti-gay law

Mahamudu Bawumia presidential candidate for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and John Dramani Mahama his rival and candidate for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) agree on one thing – that citing scriptures to justify opposition to same sex relationships is a vote-winner...


A Valentine's Day reshuffle

The reshuffle may allow Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia the NPP's presidential candidate to rejig economic policy and a wider ministerial team ahead of elections in November...


The economy will tilt the election

On 7 December Ghanaians are due to elect a successor to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in what is shaping up to be a tight race between Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia and former President John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress...


No case for the prosecutor

Adu Boahen was sacked by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in November 2022 and referred to the OSP for investigation after he was recorded telling undercover journalists from Anas Aremeyaw Anas's Tiger Eye PI investigative organisation that Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia could be paid US$200 000 as an 'appearance fee' for a meeting with investors (Dispatches 14/11/22 Treasury team in disarray as finance minister faces probe and his deputy is sacked)...


Questions on electioneering budget

This 'postponement of austerity' could help Akufo-Addo's Vice President and NPP flagbearer Mahamudu Bawumia but it might lead to another fiscal reckoning...


Bawumia leads race for NPP ticket

Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia's landslide victory in the New Patriotic Party's Special Delegates' Conference and the withdrawal of former Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen has put Bawumia in pole position to win the battle to lead the NPP in the December 2024 election (AC Vol 64 No 2 The succession race starts)...


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