Madina Member of Parliament Dr Francis-Xavier Sosu didn’t mince words. Standing before the media at a GIMPA TEIN event, he delivered a verdict on Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s political future that left no room for interpretation: the former Vice President, in his estimation, will never occupy the Jubilee House as President.
The remarks, captured on video and quickly circulated online, amounted to a public dismissal of Bawumia’s continued standing as the NPP’s presidential aspirant.
Sosu’s language was direct, almost dismissive.
“I will tell Dr Bawumia that he should retire,” he said. “He should not think of harbouring any presidential ambition because he will not become the President of Ghana.”
It wasn’t just a jab — it was a closing argument, delivered with the confidence of a man who believes the case is already settled.
To make his point land, Sosu reached for an everyday comparison. Picture, he said, a hiring manager staring at a stack of applications for a vacant role. Would that manager ever seriously consider a candidate with a documented track record of failure in the very same position? For Sosu, the answer is self-evident — and so, he argued, is Ghana’s answer to Bawumia.
Sosu’s broader argument leaned less on personality and more on performance. His central claim: Bawumia cannot wriggle free from the legacy of the Akufo-Addo administration, having served at its economic helm as Vice President. In Sosu’s reading, the years Bawumia spent chairing the Economic Management Team weren’t a footnote to his political story — they were the story, and by his measure, not a flattering one.
Whatever leadership qualities Bawumia might claim to bring to the presidency, Sosu suggested, the evidence from his time in government tells a different tale — one that, in his view, disqualifies rather than recommends him.
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None of this appears to be slowing Bawumia down. He remains the NPP’s standard-bearer heading into the next presidential contest, unmoved — at least publicly — by opposition broadsides of this kind.
But Sosu’s message was less about influencing Bawumia’s calculus and more about staking out the NDC’s line: that the former Vice President’s chapter in national leadership should, in their view, already be closed.