Former Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia is proposing a radical change in Ghana's budgeting framework with a pledge to make it a Constituency-based and -focused development guide.

Dr Bawumia reiterates, a Constituency focused budget has many benefits, including identifying and meeting the real development needs of the people at the micro level, which would in turn create opportunities for local businesses to grow and create jobs for both the young and old.

"When we craft the budget this way, no Constituency will be left out in the sharing of the national development cake. It will also mean that local contractors and businesses will be the ones who get the contracts and do the jobs. The days of one contractor getting all the jobs like fixing street lights or building schools and leaving the rest out will be a thing of the past" Dr Bawumia stated at Effiduase in the Ashanti Region on Thursday, September 11.

"By empowering local contractors, we will be creating thousands of direct and indirect jobs. Development will also be spread all over the country, and the projects undertaken will be what the people really want, not what someone sitting in the capital thinks they need", he added.

The NPP 2024 flagbearer is in the Ashanti Region on a three day zonal engagement with Constituency Executives ahead of the Party's upcoming flagbearer poll on January 31, 2026, for which he is the overwhelming favourite.

Making a case for why he should be retained as the NPP ticket for the 2028 elections, Dr Bawumia pointed out that forward-thinking ideas help create, sustain and grow businesses and nations, and whoever the Party chooses as it's leader for the upcoming battle must be one with a track record of demonstrable achievement.

"No President will develop Ghana with his or her personal funds; you develop a nation with clear, practical ideas. 

"The ideas I have championed over the past 8yrs have led to the creation of thousands of jobs for Ghanaians, from the enhancement and mass issuance of the Ghana Card, which has created over 60,000 permanent jobs at the National Identification Authority, through to Nabco which has led to over 30,000 permanent jobs, to the establishment of Medical Drone Centres which have saved thousands of lives and created hundreds of jobs for young Ghanaian graduates.

"My track record is there for all to see. And I achieved them as a Vice President. I can assure you there are many more national development ideas from where the earlier ones came from, and as President, Ghana's holistic development will be my number one, indeed only, priority," he pledged. 

He appealed to Party delegates to retain him as flagbearer, saying he was the most marketed and visible of the 5 men who had filed their nomination.

"Fellow Party members, I am undoubtedly the NPP's surest bet in the 2028 election. There is no community or house which has not heard the name of Dr Bawumia. I am Prepared, Formidable, and Winnable. Let us win 2028 with Bawumia."