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Nigeria - Ghana's main opposition party, the New Patriotic Party, NPP, is drawing inspiration from Nigeria’s incoming President Muhammadu Buhari in a bid to wrest power from the ruling party and unseat a leader in office, Mail& Guardian reports.
Buhari had won the presidential election in Africa’s biggest economy with 52.4% of the votes cast, defeating President Goodluck Jonathan and his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the first lawful transition of power since British colonial rule ended in 1960.
“The Nigerian election is an inspiration for us,” Mahamudu Bawumia, vice presidential candidate for the NPP said in an interview on May 15. “We have to learn from a party that can take out the incumbent.”
The NPP will focus its campaign for next year’s election on the economy’s poor performance under President John Dramani Mahama, said Bawumia, 51. Ghana is facing its biggest power cuts in a decade and has Africa’s worst-performing currency against the dollar this year.
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Buhari had won the presidential election in Africa’s biggest economy with 52.4% of the votes cast, defeating President Goodluck Jonathan and his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the first lawful transition of power since British colonial rule ended in 1960.
“The Nigerian election is an inspiration for us,” Mahamudu Bawumia, vice presidential candidate for the NPP said in an interview on May 15. “We have to learn from a party that can take out the incumbent.”
The NPP will focus its campaign for next year’s election on the economy’s poor performance under President John Dramani Mahama, said Bawumia, 51. Ghana is facing its biggest power cuts in a decade and has Africa’s worst-performing currency against the dollar this year.
#Nigeria #APC #Buhari #Ghana
