Former Energy Minister, Mr Boakye Agyarko, will be filing his nomination forms today, June 19, 2023 to contest the flagbearership race of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Mr Boakye Agyarko is among the over ten (10) candidates who have declared their intentions to contest the same position.
Mr Boakye Agyarko had declared his ambition to contest for the NPP 2024 presidential primaries after serving the party faithfully and loyally.
According to him, he stands a better chance of leading the party to the 2024 election as flagbearer to “Break the 8” year rotation of governance between the NPP and NDC.
To him, he is “fit for purpose”, for which reason he has resolved to put himself up to be elected by the party’s delegates.
The former Energy Minister was the first to pick nomination forms on Friday, May 26, 2023 and declared himself ready to file his nomination forms hoping to secure the approval of the party’s delegates to lead the NPP in the 2024 elections.
“I think everybody has a strategy and the team of Boakye Agyarko also have our own strategy and we are very sure of emerging victorious,” Spokesperson Dr Benjamin Ashitey told journalists after picking the forms on behalf of his Boss.
“We don’t mind the noises we are hearing around, we have a strategy and we are keeping to our strategy.”
So far, about 10 presidential aspirants have also picked nomination forms to contest the party’s flagbearer slot.
They include Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Former Energy Minister, Boakye Kyeremanten Agyarko, Mr Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, who is the immediate past Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, the immediate past Minister of Food and Agriculture, Kennedy Agyapong, the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Joe Ghartey, the Member of Parliament for Essikadu-Ketan and former Minister of Railway Development and Kwabena Adjei Agyapong, a former General-Secretary of the party.
The leadership of the NPP has planned to organise a Special Delegates Congress on August 26, 2023, to select five of the presidential aspirants.
The top five aspirants will then go head-to-head on November 4, 2023, to stake claim to the flagbearer slot, and subsequently lead the party in the 2024 general election.