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Dr Mahamudu Bawumia

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


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Mahama leads a decisive NDC comeback

Former President John Dramani Mahama won the 7 December presidential election decisively – defeating Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and leading the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) back to power in a contest that has reinforced Ghana's reputation for political alternance...


Bawumia tries to defy economic gravity

Using the slogan ‘Breaking the Eight' Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia is vying to succeed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in an ambitious bid to win a third consecutive national election for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP)...

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Debt and inflation drag Bawumia down

As two credible opinion polls show the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its presidential candidate Mahamudu Bawumia heading for defeat three weeks ahead of the national elections on 7 December arguments over the state of the economy are dominating the campaign...


Accra jumps through more debt hoops

Compared with a year ago President Nana Akufo-Addo's New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its presidential candidate Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia can point to significant if delayed progress on Ghana's multi-pronged debt restructuring...


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...


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