Former Vice President and 2024 New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has expressed deep appreciation to a section of the party's youth wing after they mobilised to collect and personally deliver presidential nomination forms to him.

Hundreds of youth organisers of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Wednesday, August 13, thronged the party’s headquarters in Accra to pick up presidential nomination forms on behalf of the former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.

In an address following the presentation, Dr Bawumia revealed that an overwhelming majority of NPP youth organisers had urged him to allow them to take the initiative.

“490 out of 552 came to me and requested,” he stated. “The leadership came and requested that they wanted to put their might together and pick my forms for me. I agreed because that was a remarkable vote of confidence in me.”

He continued, “This morning, they have fulfilled that promise they made, and they have picked the forms from the headquarters and have delivered the forms to me today.”

• Read also: Hundreds of NPP youth organisers pick nomination forms for Bawumia at party HQ

Dr Bawumia commended the youth for their energy and commitment to the party’s future.

“The youth are a major asset for our party,” he said. “They represent the future, and they are assets not only for the party but for the nation. I want to thank them for this major vote of confidence.”

While stopping short of a formal declaration, Dr Bawumia hinted at his intention to join the flagbearership race ahead of the party’s 2026 presidential primary.

“I am minded to contest for the flagbearership of the New Patriotic Party,” he noted. “I will make a full declaration in that regard when I go on to submit the forms handed over to me this morning.”

The former Vice President also used the occasion to call for a respectful and idea-driven campaign as the party prepares for what is expected to be a competitive internal contest.

“Let us see that I want this flagbearership election to be conducted with decorum,” he urged.

He urged party members and fellow aspirants to uphold a spirit of decency and respect as the race for the party’s leadership gains momentum.

“We are not in a campaign of insults, and we should not be in a campaign of insults. It should be about ideas, and that is what will capture the imagination of Ghanaians,” he concluded.