A flagbearer aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has picked nomination forms at the party’s Head Office in Asylum Down, in Accra to begin the process of filing to contest the presidential primary of the ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP).
Friends of Dr. Afriyie Akoto, a group on the party sympathetic to Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto’s course picked the nomination forms for the flagbearer hopeful.
“This group strongly believes in Dr. Afriyie Akoto and, has therefore mobilized our own resources to support him. ”
The picking of nomination forms by Dr. Afriyie Akoto will bring to five the number of flagbearer hopefuls who have picked the forms to contest the party’s presidential primary.
When nominations opened on Friday, May 26, 2023, a former Trade and Industry Minister, Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku, former MP for Mampong constituency, Kofi Addae Nimo, former Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko and former General Secretary of the NPP, Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, picked their nomination form to signal their readiness for the contest.
It is, however, not clear when the MP for Ketan, Joe Ghartey, former Trade and Industry Minister, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, MP for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, and Vice-President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia will pick their nomination forms.
All have publicly announced their intentions to contest the party’s presidential primary.
On Thursday, May 25, 2023, the General Secretary of the NPP, Justin Kodua Frimpong, announced the roadmap to the party’s presidential primary.
In a statement released in Accra, the opening of nominations was fixed at Friday, May 26, 2023, while nominations closes on June 24, 2023.
The party scheduled Saturday, August 26, 2023, as a day for its Special Electoral College Election if the candidates for its presidential primary exceed five.
It also scheduled Saturday, November 4, 2023, to hold its National Congress to elect a flagbearer for the 2024 general elections.