His Excellence President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo has revealed that Flagbearer Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is in a favorable position to succeed.
Speaking to the Zongo Community at the celebration of Eid yesterday, he assured the Zongo Community that Dr. Bawumia is in a catbird seat in succeeding him as the next President of Ghana. He expressed delight with regards to the fact that, Dr. Bawumia is the first Muslim flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and that he will give strength to the Zongo Development Fund.
Fortunately, the Vice President, Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia, is the elected flagbearer of my party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), indeed the first of the Muslim faith to occupy that important, position, and is in pole position, by the grace and benediction of Almighty Allah to take over from me on 7th January 2025, Insha Allah.
President Akufo-Addo emphasized the importance of the Zongo Development Fund and the need to sustain it. He maintained that the project has assisted a lot of Muslim Communities, and as such it is important to put measures in place to press forward with the project.
From the construction of school infrastructure to the provision of computer laboratories, to the expansion of sanitary facilities, to the development of Astroturf football pitches, we have lifted the lives of thousands, if not millions, of people living in Zongo communities.
He encouraged the Muslim community to rely on external aid from the government by putting mechanisms in place to strengthen the project and subsequently possess it as their own.
I hoped that residents of Zongos would own the Fund, and leverage the support of the government to attract external support for the fund, rather than it becoming a wholly-government-funded initiative. I am urging you to show a heightened sense of interest in the development of the fund so that we can grow it for successive generations of Zongo people.
