The New Patriotic Party (NPP) will go to the polls on Saturday, January 31, 2026, to elect a new presidential candidate to lead the party into the 2028 general elections.
This year’s election will see only five (5) people vying for the presidential candidate slot of the party, and the exercise will take place in all 275 constituencies across the country.
A total of 211,849 delegates are expected to vote, and the exercise will be held across 333 centres in the aforementioned constituencies nationwide.
Speaking on the development, the Akuapem North Youth Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Ahmmed Agbenyadzi, said all indications suggest that former Vice President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, will be re-elected to lead the party into the 2028 elections.
He described Dr. Alhaji Bawumia as ‘darling boy’ of former President Akufo-Addo and, as a result, he will do everything possible to ensure his election as the next leader of the party in order to shield him from the mess he caused the country during his tenure as President of Ghana.
According to him, after the NPP’s abysmal performance in the 2024 general elections, the party went back to refurbish Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and decided to bring him back to contest the upcoming elections.
He added that they are not perturbed because Alhaji Bawumia cannot win the 2028 elections.
Ahmmed Agbenyadzi further stated that Ghanaians voted for the NDC in 2024 for good governance and economic freedom, which the party is delivering; therefore, nothing can distract them from changing the fortunes of the country to bring joy to the citizenry.
“Voting for repackaging Dr. Bawumia to contest the 2028 election is a waste of resources because he has nothing new to offer Ghanaians,” he stated.
He also expressed concern about the NPP’s new reforms to elect a presidential candidate before electing other executives from the polling station level through the constituency and regional levels to the national level.
“In every election, the party elects its executives from the bottom to the top before electing the presidential candidate to lead them into the next elections but in this case, because of someone’s personal interest they want Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to become the flagbearer whether hook or crook and it is very worrying,” noted Mr. Agbenyadzi.
“If NPP elected the former Vice President Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to become their next flagbearer for the 2028 elections we will jubilate because he will help their Members of Parliament to lose more seats to NDC,” he revealed.
By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.
Source// Obohnewsonline.com.
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