Ghana: May the Best Candidate Win 'Showdown' Tomorrow?

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A total of 203, 439 eligible delegates will tomorrow converge on 331 designated polling centres to vote across the 275 constituencies nationwide in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential primaries to elect a flagbearer to lead the party in the 2024 general elections.

The delegates would be faced with the daunting task of selecting from a field of four candidates namely, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, MP for Assin Central; Dr Owusu Akoto Afriyie, a former Minister of Food and Agriculture, and Mr Francis Addai-Nimoh, a former MP for Mampong, Ashanti Region.

Poll watchers have already began predicting the outcome of the contest but each of the candidates is confident of carrying the day .The winner of the contest would be expected to obtain more than 50 per cent of the votes to become the flagbearer for the December 2024 general election.has no doubt that the poll would pass off smoothly for a worthy winner to emerge as the flagbearer.

Is that enough to win any of them the flagbearership? We leave that to the delegates to decide on Saturday.

 

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