Jewel announces bid for 2029

By Lincoln G. Peters 

Former Vice President, Jewel Howard-Taylor lets the cat out of the bag here early, announcing her bid for the Presidency in 2029. 

According to Mrs. Taylor, she didn’t go through all of the leadership experiences and tests to turn around, in response to a question about her active engagement in political activities and if she could contest for the Presidency while speaking to Closing Argument, a live online talk show recently. 

“Yes, I will contest 2029. Someone asked me a question, why do you want to be President one day. And I said, do you think I have gone through all of this only to get to it and say I’m turning around? That is a fraud in my character. When I’m on a trajectory as you know, it takes a bulldozer to turn me around”, she noted. 

The former first female Vice President maintains that she believes she can still impact her country in many ways. 

She further indicated that because the Coalition for Democratic Change lost the election, she is now political leader of the National Patriotic Party (NPP), noting that the standard bearer is given a year before standing up either as President or Vice President. 

On the marriage with the CDC, Mrs. Taylor said she doesn’t know if the NPP as a political party remains in the Coalition because the agreement was to go in the presidential election and hoping that they could have won and remain together. 

“Now, since it didn’t, every political party will now go back in house and ensure if they are staying or reforming. There were other new things among which calls for the chairmanship of the party to rotate, among others that they have to agree as to what to do going forward.”

On Wednesday, January 24, 2024, NPP controversial Chairman Atty. George Mulbah said they will field a candidate for the Presidency in 2029. 

Mulbah said never again will the party lost its identity on the ballot, adding that they won all of the slots that were provided to the NPP in the Coalition, which shows that they have strength to win national elections. 

“Though I’m not the final decision maker of the NPP, I will propose to the National Executive Committee; we can form a collaboration but we can’t again lose our identity on the ballot. 

While in the CDC, they gave us five seats in 2017, in the just-ended elections, NPP won about six seats. They gave us one seat to contest in Maryland and we won. They gave us a by-election in Sinoe and we won. I strongly believe that if our emblem is shown on the ballot, we will get more representations”, Chairman Mulbah added. 

According to him, he will convene a meeting with the political leader and other party executives to determine the next action of the NPP in the Coalition. Editing by Jonathan Browne