A flagbearer hopeful of the
governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto will on Monday,
July 3, 2023, begin a nationwide campaign tour starting with the Greater Accra
Region.
The two-term Member of Parliament
for Kwadaso in the Ashanti Region will first visit the Shai-Osudoku
constituency, Ningo-Prampram constituency and then Ashaiman constituency where
he will meet with polling station executives and delegates to sell his vision
for the party and Ghana to them.
On Tuesday, July 4, 2023, he will
visit Domeabra-Obom, Ayawaso East and Ayawaso North Constituencies where he’ll
convince the delegates to vote for him to become the party’s Presidential
Candidate for the 2024 election.
The former Minister for Food and
Agriculture will then move his campaign to the Central and Eastern Regions.
He will be accompanied by two
Co-campaign Chairmen, Alfred Boye, a former Greater Accra NPP Regional
Chairman, and KEN-WUUD Norwusu, also former NPP Volta Regional Chairman, the
National Coordinator of the campaign team, Peter Oteng Darko and Campaign
Spokesperson, Dr. Prince Sodoke Amuzu.
The New Patriotic Party on May 26,
2023, opened nominations for its Presidential Primary and closed on June 24,
2023.
A total of 10 aspirants contesting
the flagbearer race successfully submitted their presidential nomination forms
to the party.
They are a former Minister of
Energy, Mr Boakye Agyarko; former NPP General Secretary and presidential
spokesperson, Mr Kwabena Agyei Agyepong; former Member of Parliament (MP) for
Mampong, Mr Francis Addai-Nimoh; former Minister of State, Dr Kofi Konadu
Apraku and former Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto.
The rest are Vice President, Dr
Mahamudu Bawumia; former Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Alan Kwadwo
Kyerematen; former Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Mr Joe Ghartey;
energy expert, Mr Kwadwo Opoku and Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Mr
Kennedy Ohene Agyapong.
A Special Delegates Congress will
be held on August 26, 2023, to select five of the presidential aspirants.
The top five aspirants will then
contest for the flagbearer slot on December 4, 2023, to elect one to lead the
party in the 2024 general elections.
SOURCE: CITINEWSROOM
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