The Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, has expressed optimism that the Ashanti Region, the stronghold of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), will give the party the needed numbers to be able to break the 8-year electoral cycle in this year’s elections on December 7.
She noted that the party is united with ahead of the general elections.
Speaking to journalists at the inauguration of the Ashanti Region NPP campaign team over the weekend, she said “The love for the party is so supreme that people were willing to come together to put Ashanti forward and become the biggest contributors to breaking the 8. They will give us the numbers, it is possible, we will break the 8.”
For his part, the Campaign Chairman of the NPP ahead of the 2024 general elections, Mr Dan Kwaku Botwe said that at the right time, the flagbearer of the NPP Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia will announce his running mate for the 2024 general elections.
He says Dr Bawumia will soon meet the National Council of the NPP and discuss the selection with the council.
Also speaking to journalists at the same event, Mr Botwe said “we are not divided at all, we have had successful polling station elections, successful electoral elections, successful constituency elections, successful regional elections, successful national elections, and successful presidential elections, we are united and we will do it at the right time. We have done it before in 1992, 96, 2000, 2008, we did it, so it is not an issue at all.
“At the appropriate time, the presidential candidate will meet the national council and we shall have a discussion and we will name the running mate, so far as I am concerned there is no contest for a running mate.”
the Ashanti Region Chairman of the NPP, Bernard Antwi Boasiako (Chairman Wuntumi) assured the NPP that the party would break the 8-year electoral cycle.
“Dr Bawumia will win the elections, and we shall break the 8,” he said.