Flagbearer hopeful of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Dr. Owusu Afriyie-Akoto will today 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, Ningo-Prampram and then Ashaiman constituencies where he will meet with polling station executives and other delegates to sell his vision for the party and Ghana to them.
On Tuesday, he will visit Domeabra-Obom, Ayawaso East and Ayawaso North Constituencies where he will 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 NPP 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 Agyapong; 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.
