Presidential candidate for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Joe Ghartey, has picked his nomination forms to run in the NPP’s upcoming primary elections. Several constituency executives and chairpersons have joined his campaign to ensure his victory.
Mr. Ghartey has pledged to give the party new leadership and to create opportunities for everyone, particularly for Ghana’s youth.
He believes it is time for Ghanaians to unite to “fight poverty” as opposed to engaging in intergroup conflict.
Mr. Ghartey has pledged to give the party new leadership and to create opportunities for everyone, particularly for Ghana’s youth.
Additionally, the numerous constituency executives and chairmen who have sided with Hon. Ghartey are anticipating a change in the direction taken by the ruling New Patriotic Party, one that will allow for equal opportunity for all people, regardless of their economic, social, religious, or ethnic background.
On Thursday, June 1, 2023, at the NPP headquarters in Accra, Mr. Ghartey, and former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, had his forms picked by constituency executives and chairmen.
His campaign is best described as one that fervently seeks to give the NPP a new direction.
Leading the NPP executives from all the 16 regions of Ghana to pick the form presented by Evans Nimako, the Director of Elections of the NPP, was the New Juaben North Constituency Chairman, Ernest Oti Akenteng.
The longest-serving Member of Parliament from the Essikado-Ketan Constituency, who introduced the ‘Justice For All’ programme during former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s administration, wants the NPP to be a party and Ghana to be a country where everyone has equal opportunity.
And several of the executives and party members who support Hon. Ghartey’s vision of a just, equal society, a country, and a party of opportunity for all are highly educated, vibrant young Ghanaians.
Mr Ghartey, a former Minister of Railway Development and Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, is seeking to energise the NPP in order to make the party more vibrant and to provide opportunities for young people and other executives within the NPP to serve Ghana if he wins the primaries and is elected President in 2024.
Hon. Ghartey told NPP executives at the Osu Ebenezer Presbyterian Church after Mr. Oti Akenteng handed him his nomination forms that he was not seeking to become the NPP’s Presidential candidate or Ghana’s President for personal gain.
He stated that he wishes to serve the party and the country in order to bring prosperity and opportunities to all Ghanaians, adding that “politics is hard work.”
He recalled how, since the 1990s, he had stood by the NPP through difficult times, saying, “We have worked tirelessly for this party.”
He also stated that the NPP requires an experienced leader who can unite its members and Ghanaians, and that it is past time for politicians to stop fighting each other.
“We must unite the country and the party,” the veteran politician said.
Politicians, he believes, must fight for the future of Ghanaian children.
Hon. Ghartey, a visionary and peace-loving politician who has diligently and selflessly served the NPP since the 1990s,since is regarded as the best bet by NPP Constituency executives across the country to lead the party to victory in 2024 and to build a more prosperous nation for all Ghanaians, regardless of creed, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic and religious background.
Adams Abdul Majid, Mr. Ghartey’s senior aide, told the media at the NPP headquarters that the NPP’s youth from across the country were solidly behind Hon. Ghartey.
Mr. Ghartey, he said, is a capable and visionary leader who will lead Ghana to prosperity if elected President.
