NPP Will Hold Decentralised Special Presidential Primaries

The National Council of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has decided that the Special Delegates conference will be decentralised.

The decision was taken at the Steering Committee meeting Thursday, July 2023, over the National Congress by the Special Electoral College scheduled for Saturday, August 26, 2023.

Former National Chair of the NPP Freddie Blay told journalists after the meeting that “It is going to be decentralised.”

This followed a petition filed by some of the flagbearer aspirants. The aspirants were seeking a centralised National Congress by the Special Electoral College after claiming that it will be a waste of resources to decentralise the exercise.

As a result, they argued that a centralised congress would afford them the opportunity to address the delegates before Congress.

Some supporters of the party also stormed Alisa Hotel, the meeting venue of the National Council with placards demanding for a centralised special delegates conference which is expected to prone down the number of presidential candidates aspirants from the current ten (10) to five (5) for the final election of a presidential candidate later in November this year to lead the party into the 2024 general election.