Balloting for NPP flagbearer congress postponed as leadership, aspirants fail to reach consensus

The National Elections Committee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has postponed a planned balloting exercise for the successful candidates for its November 4, 2023, election to elect its flagbearer.

According to the Spokesperson for the Committee, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, he said that a meeting between them and the aspirants did not end conclusively.

Although the agenda of the day was to ballot for the positions of each candidate and to also iron out some of the challenges they faced, it did not go as planned.

He stressed that the balloting had to be postponed because there wasn’t a truce reached on the proposals raised by some of the aspirants.

He, however, did not indicate what those proposals are.

“The committee will issue its full report and on this, make the report known to the public after due consultations with stakeholders in the party,” he said.

Alexander Afenyo-Markin also confirmed that the committee had formally received the letter of withdrawal from the NPP flagbearer race by Alan Kyerematen.

“We have also received the withdrawal letter, officially, by Hon Kyerematen, and the party has accepted the withdrawal without prejudice,” he added.

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