NPP Directs Aspirants to Sign Undertaking -

25 Jul

The National Council of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) at its meeting held on Thursday, July 20, 2023, considered the guidelines for the conduct of the Party’s presidential, and parliamentary primaries in constituencies where the Party has sitting Members of Parliament.

After extensive deliberations, the Council arrived that Regional and Constituency Party executives who wish to contest in the primaries in constituencies with sitting Members of Parliament shall resign from their respective positions not later than September 20, 2023. Also, Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in the Constituencies where the Party has sitting Members of Parliament are not eligible to contest in the parliamentary primaries for those Constituencies.

In a statement signed by the party’s General Secretary, Justin Kodua Frimpong, “an aspiring Presidential Candidate shall sign an undertaking with the party, committing himself to supporting whoever is eventually elected as the party’s Presidential Candidate after the election/selection process in the event that he is not elected/selected. He shall also undertake not to contest as an Independent Presidential Candidate or as a Candidate on the ticket of any other political party, and that, the NPP reserves the right to restrain him should he decide otherwise.”

The photo Album/Register that was used to elect the Constituency Executives between April 22, 2022, and May 2, 2023, shall be the same album that will be made available to the Electoral Commission of Ghana for the conduct of the presidentil primaries.

Read below the full decisions of the National Council of the New Patriotic Party on Parliamentaryand Presidential Primaries