Nii Ayikoi Otoo, a former minister of justice and attorney general, has implored Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to abandon his plans to lead the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) into the 2024 general elections and wait his turn.
On Friday, April 14, 2023, as Attorney General during the administration of former president John Agyekum Kufour, he gave this advice to the Vice President on Accra's Joy FM.
According to him, the Vice President's age is still on his side; therefore, he must wait his turn.
According to him, the party has a tradition, and so it is former Trade and Industry Minister Alan Kyerematen's turn.
"No one is saying that the Vice President is not qualified, but based on tradition and what we have seen, we are saying that he can bide his time," he explained.
"According to all available statistics, the Vice President is not yet 60," he continued.
In order to justify his support for the former Trade and Industry Minister, Mr Kyerematen, the legal luminary who once served as Ghana's High Commissioner to Canada stated, "The Vice President may have the resources and the rest, but in the end, people who know the tradition will tell the delegates to take the money and chop, as well as do the right thing."