The National Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Stephen Ayesu Ntim, has assured party members that he will deliver a President for Ghana in the 2024 election.
During his campaign for the Chairmanship position of the party, he made a very emphatic and irrevocable promise to the delegates. He stated that if they make him the National Chairman, he will give them a President in 2024.
“After you have delivered your side of the bargain by giving me a Flagbearer, I am reiterating my promise to you, distinguished delegates, that I will produce a President for you in December 2024.”
“That is what we are all looking up to, nothing less than that,” Chairman Ntim said when he addressed a gathering after the Presidential primary results were declared at the Accra Sports Stadium on November 4, 2023.
On Saturday, November 4, 2023, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia was elected as the Presidential candidate of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to lead the party to the 2024 general election. About 210,000 delegates cast their ballots in the Presidential primary held across the country on the same day, with Dr. Bawumia polling 118,210 votes.
Ken Agyapong, Member of Parliament for Assin Central, was Dr. Bawumia’s closest contender with 71,996 votes. The other contestants, former Minister for Food and Agriculture Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto and former Member of Parliament for Mampong Francis Addai Nimoh, polled 1,459 and 781 votes, respectively.
Following his election, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia will go head-to-head with ex-President John Dramani Mahama, who secured the endorsement of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) earlier this year.
The party aims to overcome the historical trend where no political party in Ghana has secured more than two consecutive terms under the Fourth Republic, spanning from 1992 to the present. The 2024 election promises to be keenly contested between the governing NPP and the largest opposition party, the NDC.