{"id":252511,"date":"2024-11-19T02:40:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T02:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/19\/bawumia-from-political-outsider-to-ghanas-mr-digital\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T02:40:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T02:40:41","slug":"bawumia-from-political-outsider-to-ghanas-mr-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/19\/bawumia-from-political-outsider-to-ghanas-mr-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia: From political outsider to Ghana’s ‘Mr Digital’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr Mahamudu Bawumia soared from being a political outsider to become Ghana’s second-in-command – and in December he could make history as the country’s first Muslim president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bawumia, currently Ghana’s vice-president, was chosen by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) as their candidate for the forthcoming general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 61-year-old Tottenham Hotspur supporter has quite a reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is an intellectual educated at Oxford University, is never seen without his signature slim, rectangular glasses and has been dubbed “Mr Digital” thanks to his pledge to whip Ghana into a technological heavyweight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But because he is head of the government’s economic management team, many Ghanaians associate Bawumia with the punishing cost of living crisis they’re experiencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Should Bawumia overcome the criticism and win the election, he will replace his current boss President Nana Akufo-Addo, who is approaching the end of his two-term limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Mr Digital” barrelled onto the political scene in 2008, sparking bemusement and scepticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bawumia was a 44-year-old who had never held public office, yet Akufo-Addo – then a mere presidential candidate – had chosen him as a running mate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bawumia’s father Alhaji had served in Ghana’s earliest governments after the country gained independence from Britain in 1957, working closely with revered Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the younger Bawumia had forged a career in economics and banking – serving as the deputy governor of Ghana’s central bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To many commentators and NPP insiders, it made no sense for Akufo-Addo to pick Bawumia over seasoned party members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Akufo-Addo ended up losing the election to John Atta Mills from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) by a tiny margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bawumia lost out on the VP job – but his charismatic campaign had silenced the naysayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“He fired [up] the NPP campaign. I think no-one else could have done a better job, to be honest, in terms of the support he gave to the NPP,” Ghanaian political scientist Dr Clement Sefa-Nyarko told the BBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMahamudu Bawumia was born to mother Hajia and father Alhaji in the city of Tamale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Akufo-Addo and Bawumia gave the elections another go in 2012. Again, they lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The NPP challenged the election results in the Supreme Court, choosing Bawumia as their star witness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the proceedings, which were broadcast on national television, Bawumia came across as witty and unflustered by the relentless, days-long cross-examination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPeople were like, who is this guy? He’s really the guy to root for,” said Dr Sefa-Nyarko, who lectures on African leadership at King’s College London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Akufo-Addo decided to keep Bawumia on his ticket and in 2016, on their third shot at power, the NPP won with 51.3% of the vote. Bawumia finally became vice-president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bawumia’s journey to the top began in 1963, when he was born into a large family in the northern city of Tamale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was the 12th of his father’s 18 children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After completing primary and secondary school in Ghana, Bawumia moved to the UK for undergraduate study and went on to gain a masters in economics from the prestigious Oxford University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To support himself during his studies, he took up jobs as a taxi driver and cleaner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He returned to Ghana in 2000 to work at the central bank, where he worked his way up to become deputy governor.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBawumia’s wife is vocal about politics and has embarked on campaign tours to drum up support for the NPP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Bawumia campaigned on this economic know-how during his attempts to become VP. Therefore, he faced heavy criticism when Ghana plummeted into its most severe economic crisis in years under his watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inflation hit a record 54% in December 2022 and the country was forced to take a $3bn (\u00a32.3bn) loan from the International Monetary Fund after government debt soared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In response to the criticism, Bawumia has said the economic management team he headed had no “decision-making powers” and that it merely provided advice to the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But for many, this wasn’t good enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“In terms of character, in terms of integrity, people started questioning themselves: ‘What is this? How did it end up here? We thought you were the best guy, and look at where we’ve ended up’,” Franklin Cudjoe, a Ghanaian political commentator and head of the Imani Centre for Policy and Education, told the BBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Along with his role as an economist, Bawumia has also built the reputation of being a digital visionary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ghana’s digital ecosystem has seen “significant growth”, especially in areas such as mobile phone connectivity, Charles Abani, head of the United Nations team in Ghana, remarked last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This “remarkable digital transformation” was “spearheaded” by Bawumia, news website\u00a0African Business\u00a0reported, while Ghanaian newspaper\u00a0The Chronicle\u00a0hailed Bawumia’s “expertise in global digital transformation”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bawumia said he initiated a partnership between Ghana’s government and US-based company Zipline, which led to the creation of the world’s largest vaccine delivery network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said he reached out to Zipline, which uses drones to fly health products to hard-to-reach clinics after his father died from a loss of blood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although this passion for technology is celebrated by some, others are more sceptical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Cudjoe said Bawumia has been campaigning on digitalisation rather than confronting debates about the government’s handling of the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Whether Bawumia was in power or not, digitalisation was bound to happen in this country because we had already started it anyway,” Mr Cudjoe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Sefa-Nyarko said of Bawumia: “What he has been very successful at is to push and also claim all credit for digitalisation outcomes of the current government.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nBawumia’s supporters hail him as a technocrat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Bawumia’s personal life has also been a strength in his presidential campaign. His wife of 20 years, Samira, is a former beauty queen who is widely admired for her chic outfits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Second Lady is also vocal when it comes to party politics – and has embarked on campaign tours for the NPP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The couple have four children together. They are proud followers of Islam – a religion practised by roughly one in five Ghanaians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most people in Ghana are Christians but there is not much evidence that coming from a religious minority will hinder Bawumia’s election chances, Dr Sefa-Nyarko said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The NPP has given its “full support” to Bawumia’s candidacy, “his Muslim faith notwithstanding”, Dr Sefa-Nyarko added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“This could translate into widespread support across the country as well.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bawumia’s geographical identity might be of greater consequence than his religion. The vice president hails from northern Ghana, which is one of the NDC’s strongest political bases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By choosing Bawumia as its presidential candidate, the NPP will be hoping to make inroads in the north, while retaining support in its heartland in the south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bawumia has been traversing north, south, east and west in what he calls the “possibilities bus”, a blue and red campaign vehicle emblazoned with the slogan “It is possible”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To some, he is the face of economic mismanagement, but the vice president retains some of the optimism he held when he was a 44-year-old embarking on an eight-year battle for power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I have the courage to accept when things do not go as well as planned,” he told voters in his manifesto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“But I also have a mindset of possibilities, and faith in ourselves, that we can rise and achieve great things in our lifetime.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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