The Member of Parliament (MP) for Asante Akim, Asante Boateng, has questioned the status of former Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, in the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and slammed him for being an outsider in the party.

Speaking on Adom TV's Badwam programme, the MP launched a shocking personal attack on the Vice President, and likened him to a serving slave who must not be allowed to lead the party.

"When there is a vacant seat in the family to be filled, you don't give it to an outsider who was brought into the family to serve.

"You don't elevate an outsider or a slave who was brought in to serve to the highest seat," the Asante Akim MP said.

"We brought Bawumia and made him Vice President, and that should be enough. You don't elevate such an outsider to the main seat.

"He has been honoured with the Vice President and that should be enough. He was an outsider who just served us," he added.

The MP, who has been campaigning for the former Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong, in the NPP Presidential Primaries, likened Dr Bawumia to a slave who has been brought by a royal family to serve.

"I want to liken him to a slave of the olden days, where the slave is brought into a royal family to serve. You can honour such a slave or a servant with some chieftaincy seat, but you can't elevate him to the main seat as we are doing for Bawumia.

"He should just leave and allow peace to prevail. Because of Bawumia, Alan has left the party and first formed the butterfly movement and now the UP party. We cannot allow him to lead us."