After lively lobbying by ethnic groups and party elders Akufo-Addo named his running-mate on 15 December: it is again the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana Mahamudu Bawumia...
However some appointees have already ordered the sacking of perceived NPP elements from the Foreign Affairs Ministry the Local Government Administration and the Central Bank of Ghana where the biggest casualty was Mahamudu Bawumia...
In northern Ghana the campaign got off to a violent start when Mahamudu Bawumia vice-presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party for the elections on 7 December arrived in Dagbon on 31 August...
The surprise nomination of Mahamudu Bawumia also a northerner to run for the NPP alongside Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo appears to have provoked panic in the NDC...
The New Patriotic Party's Dr Mahamudu Bawumia 44 was Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana for the last six years...