Some members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) had opposed the decision of the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to attend Bolgatanga Central Member of Parliament, Isaac Adongo mother’s funeral, a loyalist of the Vice-president has revealed.
In December 2019, Dr. Bawumia pulled a surprise on Mr. Adongo and a gathering of mourners when he showed up at the funeral of the MP’s mother at his residence in Bolgatanga.
The Vice-president was not scheduled to attend the funeral and the gathering was in disbelief when he appeared there.
Many applauded him for putting aside his political differences with the MP and sympathizing with him in his moment of distress.
But speaking on the circumstances that led to the Vice President pulling such a surprise on his political opponent, Mr. Awankua disclosed that the decision to attend the occasion was met with fiercest opposition.
According to him, Dr. Bawumia was in the region on that day for an engagement when he (Awankua) informed him about the funeral and suggested that they attend.
Although the Vice President readily accepted his suggestion, his loyalists and other members of the party who were there disapproved of it, obviously, because of Mr. Adongo’s attacks on him.
But Dr. Bawumia, he recalled, stood his grounds and attended the funeral against the wish of his party’s folks.
“The mother’s funeral, I remember when Dr. Bawumia came, he wasn’t in the region for that funeral but when he heard it, and I was the one who informed him. I told him ‘Our man, my friend, Isaac mother’s funeral is today’.
He said ‘oh really’. There was a group that said “no we are not going’ but I said we would go and the Vice President was on my side. He supported my idea. And it happened,” he recollected in an interview on State of Our Nation.
The NPP stalwart said this while lambasting the MP over his constant criticism of the Vice-President.
Mr. Awankua argued that Isaac Adongo would have gained more in terms of developmental projects for his constituency if he had maintained a cordial relationship instead of hostile one with Dr. Bawumia
