The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) is hard at work planning a flagbearer election for the 2024 general elections on Saturday, November 4, 2023.
Over 200,000 party delegates will vote in this key election, which the party claims is part of the process of identifying a good candidate to help it break the eight-year election cycle curse.
Four candidates are now fighting to succeed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, after the party narrowed its list of ten flagbearer candidates during its August Super Delegates Conference.
Other candidates who were once on the list have dropped out.
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, MP for Assin Central Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, former Agriculture Minister Dr. Owusu Akoto Afriyie, and former MP for Mampong Francis Addai-Nimoh are the four surviving candidates.
Although some pollsters predict Dr. Bawumia would win, they feel he will have tight fight from Kennedy Agyapong.
The competitors were had to sign an agreement not to resign from the party if any of them lost.
The election, which will select a flagbearer to represent the party in the general elections in 2024, will take place in every constituency throughout the country’s 16 regions.
Kennedy Agyapong will be at the top of the ballot, followed by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in second place.
Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto and Francis Addai Nimo, former Mampong MP, will take the third and fourth positions, respectively.
