FILSON AWANKUA
FILSON AWANKUA

Rapid Respond Unit for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia (RRU4DMB), a political group newly formed to prosecute the Vice-President’s campaign for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer position, is targeting a win in the Upper East Region for the NPP in the 2024 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections.

Speaking in an interview on State of Our Nation, founder and leader of RRU4DMB, Filson Awankua said the group is poised to not only get Dr. Bawumia elected as NPP’s presidential candidate but also to increase his and the party’s support base especially in areas like the Upper East Region where they have not been performing well in order to win the 2024 Elections.

“The target is not just the primaries. We are going beyond that. As for the primaries, we are so confident that the delegates will give or endorse our preferred candidate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.

So we are going beyond that and preparing to make sure that the Vice-president performs very well and if possible, beat the NDC’s presidential candidate in the Upper East,” he said.

Mr. Awankua believes the governing party’s poor showings in Elections since 1992 in the 5 regions of the North are due to what he said is vile propaganda peddled by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) against the party and its presidential candidates.

He said the NDC and its members thrive on smear campaigns and thus, the NPP will require a sophisticated strategy to counter them.

It is for this reason that he has formed the Rapid Respond Unit for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to tackle any such smear campaign against the Vice-President and the party in general.

“They were sent to the Soviet Union to train them how to lie and the NDC can put a lie on you and make it look like it is the truth. So as the RRU, we are not to physically respond to issues like the police but we are to intellectually respond to issues.

The NPP stands for the fact and the truth. So if we have the facts, the truth on our side, why can’t we respond to issues, the black propaganda, the blackmailing, the lies about our leaders especially our candidate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia?”

The NDC has dominated in elections in the North of Ghana over the years.

Except the newly created North East Region which the NPP won in the 2020 polls, the NDC has always won elections in all the regions in that part of the country.

But Awankua is certain that the story will change in 2024 should Vice-President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia be made the NPP’s leader.