The mangle Landcruiser. Inset: Lucky Dr Bawumia
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) is convinced that the Sunday ghastly accident that almost claimed the life of the party’s Vice Presidential candidate in the 2012 elections, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, was orchestrated by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the National Security.
The tyres of the brand new Toyota Land Cruiser V8 that Dr. Bawumia was travelling in suddenly exploded, sending the heavy-duty SUV somersaulting several times with its occupants trapped in the mangled car.
The General Secretary of the NDC however dismissed the assertion, describing it as “comic relief”.
Earlier, the National Chairman of the NPP, Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, who was in the same convoy and occupying the same vehicle brand, experienced the same tyre-busting episode.
Strange Ambulance
On arrival at the airport in Accra, a waiting ambulance whisked the visibly shaken NPP running mate to Lister Hospital in Accra.
However, the NPP’s suspicion was aroused because upon conducting some checks, it was realized that none of the NPP advance party in Accra actually called for that particular ambulance.
They came with their own car to convey Dr. Bawumia to the hospital.
The curious NPP officials were forced to ask the ambulance driver who ordered him (the ambulance driver) to pick up Dr. Bawumia, the party’s star witness in the pending case at the Supreme Court.
According to the General Secretary of the NPP, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly called Sir John, to their amazement, the driver told them that a certain Warrant Officer (W.O) Tetteh from the National Security ordered him to pick up Dr Bawumia from the airport, with no prior knowledge of the party.
Sir John told stunned journalists that the ambulance came without any paramedic indicating that it was expecting to convey dead bodies.
“They thought that the nature of the accident was such that Bawumia would not come out alive and that he was dead and they were just coming to pick up dead bodies and send them to the morgue. That is why they came with an ambulance with only a driver,” Sir John conjectured.
“We now know that it was the National Security and the NDC that had brought this ambulance,” he said.
“Whoever W.O. Tetteh is, he must come out to tell us who arranged for an ambulance to be at the airport”.
DAILY GUIDE put a call through to W.O. Tetteh on Monday and he denied any prior knowledge of the accident.
He said his involvement with the ambulance was purely coincidental.
“It wasn’t me who ordered the ambulance. I saw the ambulance in heavy traffic and the people were not allowing the ambulance [to move through the traffic], so I stopped all cars to enable the ambulance to go freely to the airport,” W.O. Tetteh told DAILY GUIDE.
According to him, he only knew the ambulance was going to the airport when it got stuck in traffic.
Traffic on Sunday raises its own questions.
He said he questioned the driver who told him he was going to the airport, hence his decision to help free the road for it.
Modus Operandi
According to the NPP’s General Secretary, at a press conference on Monday, “I have looked at the case, we have examined it and noted the modus operandi of the NDC and the National Security and I can tell you we can feel the spokes of the umbrella in this matter.
“The NDC knows that if Bawumia is not there, then our case is dead, therefore whatever it takes for them to eliminate Dr. Mahmudu Bawumia and some key members of our legal team and some key members of our party executives, they would do so,” he said.
Sir John was convinced that the ghastly accident was not a mere coincidence.
He linked it with the fact that Dr. Bawumia is one of the key petitioners and witnesses in the election petition challenging the legitimacy of President John Dramani Mahama as the winner of last year’s Presidential election.
“They are also aware of the fact that Dr. Mahmudu Bawumia is a key witness in this matter that is pending before the Supreme Court, and that he had been seen going round the country, trying to put our case before the general public.”
The law suit is currently pending in the Supreme Court where the NPP is claiming it has evidence from 11,000 out of the 26,000 polling stations across the country, proving that the election was manipulated in favour of the NDC’s President Mahama.
The NPP is drawing linkages to previous experiences allegedly facilitated by the NDC where raids had been carried out in the NPP offices believed to hold copies of the evidence being presented to the Supreme Court.
“These are not normal times; the NDC will do anything- they will kill and murder, to enable them to win the court case,” Sir John noted.
Challenging The NDC
The NPP is challenging the NDC to come clean on the damning allegations that the ruling party knew something about the accident, saying the NDC “cannot get away with this murder attempt.
“I urge John Dramani Mahama to come clean on this matter because all the attempts they have made to eliminate some of our people, this latest one, they would not get away with it…If he thinks that he can kill our members over there [in Bole where the incident happened], he is just joking,” the NPP General Secretary charged.
DAILY GUIDE gathered that Dr. Bawumia- who came out of the accident unscathed, except for some pains, had recovered from the shock of the accident and was discharged from hospital.
He was on Sunday forced to cut his trip short and airlifted to Accra for medical treatment.
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