A video shows a small number of young people in Adum, the center of the Ashanti Region, jeering Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia’s convoy has appeared on social networking platform X.
Crowds in the area caused the convoy, which included a truck branded with the Bawumia campaign, to slow down. The moment is captured in the video.
A pickup truck with roughly six people in its bucket is seen in the video; it is a part of a bigger convoy that also includes a bus, a police van, and V8 cars. The young males are heard and seen noisily expressing their displeasure with the convoy’s occupants by jeering and hooting at them.
A few of the young men yelled, “This is all you people know, driving in V8s. Shame unto you all, thieves, shame unto you.” “You have done nothing, move your convoy away; this is all you know,” other people said. The convoy made its way gently through the crowd, saying, “We are wiser, this year we will vote for change, we will change this year.”
Bawumia, who is running to replace President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in the general elections of 2024, has received a lot of support in the Ashanti Region, which has historically been a New Patriotic Party (NPP) stronghold. Hundreds of thousands of people show up to welcome him and his entourage in videos and pictures from his engagements.
John Dramani Mahama, the former president, is Bawumia’s primary opponent in the 2017 elections. This is Mahama’s fourth presidential run. Mahama defeated Akufo-Addo in the 2016 and 2020 elections, despite winning the 2012 one. In an extremely tight race, both candidates are stepping up their campaigns as the 2024 election draws near.
