An eleven-person committee has been established by the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to oversee its presidential primaries.
The committee’s main responsibility is to investigate each candidate who has applied to represent the party in the general elections of 2024.
During a meeting on May 30, the National Steering Committee chose the team.
The committee’s main duty is to carefully review and score the ten party veterans who have turned in their applications to run for the party’s flagbearer position. The outcome of this crucial screening procedure will have a big impact on who the party nominates as its presidential candidate in the upcoming election.
“In accordance with Article 10(3)(F)(ii) of the Party’s Constitution, the National Steering Committee, acting for and on behalf of the National Council, at its emergency meeting held on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, and upon further stakeholder consultations, appointed Rt. Hon. Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye as Chairman of the Vetting Committee for the Party’s Presidential Primary Election,” the party said in a statement.
Kwasi Amoako Atta, Stephen Abankwa Sekyere, Osei Bonsu Amoah, Lord Oblitey Commey, Frank Davies, Hackman Owusu-Agyeman, and Adelaide Ahwireng are additional members of the vetting committee.
The other two are Evans Nimako, the Party’s Director for Research and Elections, who was also appointed Secretary for the committee, and Osei Bonsu Amoah, the Member of Parliament for Akuapem North Constituency and a member of the Vetting Committee.
Meanwhile, prior to the general elections in 2024, Mustapha Gbande, the Deputy National Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has issued a stern warning to the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
His responses follow President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo‘s remarks on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, in which he congratulated the NDC on winning the Assin North by-election.
He claimed that the outcome and the way it was handled only served to strengthen Ghana’s democratic credentials.
