*As He Packs Out Of His Marital Home Into Father’s Residence*

By Cecil Mensah

Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, the man tipped to be the running mate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2012 general elections, has reportedly packed bag and baggage out of his matrimonial home, leaving behind his beautiful goddess Samira Bawumia.

The one time Deputy Governor of Bank of Ghana (BOG) is now estranged from his wife, and said to be secretly living in House Number 10 at Kanda, a suburb of Accra.

Reliable information from family sources confirm the estrangement and Bawumia’s new home near the Kanda Post office,which used to be the residence of his late father, Alhaji Bawumia, a bigwig of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) who was made a member of Council of State by J.J Rawlings in the late 1990s.

“The Herald’s” scouts have been monitoring the activities of Dr. Bawumia, since word got round that the NPP 2008 running mate of Williams Nana Akufo-Addo, is habouring a decision to sack his wife over claims of infidelity. The paper discovered that he was, indeed, frequenting his late father’s house, and recently has moved in without his beautiful Samira.

From his new abode, the ex-Deputy BoG Governor is seriously lobbying other NPP bigwigs to accept him as their vice-presidential candidate for the second time running as Nana Addo has already decided on giving him another try.

Dr. Bawumia sacked his first wife Hajara Chebo, on a flimsy excuse that she is an illiterate, who could not match his newly-acquired Phd status, accompanied by an overwhelming transformation and marked by the allocation of a government bungalow at the plush Labone Residence, near the former Alisa Hotel in Accra.

The Herald was told that friends then advised the young chap, who was rapidly rising to fame and prestige, to maintain the first wife and marry another one in addition, since his Ahamadiya Muslim sect allows men to pick two wives.

But Dr. Bawumia had a better option. Being mesmerized by the beautiful Samira Ramadan, daughter of Alhaji Ahmed Ramadan, National Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC), he sacked his first wife and settled for her.

Samira, according to our sources, had her heady days at Kwame Nkrumah University (KNUST), where she had her first degree after her secondary education at Mfantsiman Secondary School at Saltpond in the Central Region. While in university, she was involved in beauty pageants, which brought her fame on campus.

It has also been said that at a certain time, she (Samira) was much involved with a key member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who is now a Cabinet Minister in the Mills’ administration (name withheld).

In those days when she was with this NDC member, her father prayed for the gentleman to marry his daughter, but the equally youthful and politically active man, ditched her to marry his long standing girlfriend, who had been supportive of his political career over the years.

The Herald a fortnight ago, reported on how Dr. Bawumia, can best be described as one of the most egoistic Ghanaian men, who has no consideration for women, because he sacked his first wife on the flimsy excuse of her being an illiterate, whose level of education did not match with his current status as a Deputy Governor of Bank of Ghana (BoG).

After the NPP failed to retain power in 2008, Bawumia left for Canada to lecture in Economics as an Associate Professor, and later took another appointment with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Zimbabwe, leaving his wife and children behind..

That long absence from home, threw Samira into a depressive state of loneliness, from which she subsequently escaped by enrolling at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) for a Master’s Degree.

Sources say, she subsequently fell into the warm arms of a young attentive course mate with whom she allegedly spent nights away from home without the services of the driver assigned to her by the husband.