Press Release
NPP
July 17, 2014
Accra, Ghana
NPP SETTLES ON OCTOBER 18TH FOR
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES
The New Patriotic Party has penciled 31st August 2014 as the
date for the Special Delegates Congress to elect the first five
of the seven persons who have filed to contest the Presidential
Primaries. The Special Congress will be held at Regional Centres
in all the ten Regions of Ghana. The Party Headquarters at
Asylum Down in Accra will also be designated as a Polling Center
for some categories of voters.
This decision was taken at the Party’s National Council Meeting
held at Alisa Hotel on Wednesday, 16th July 2014.
The Council has also scheduled 18th October for the Presidential
Primaries to be held in all the 275 constituencies
simultaneously. Further guidelines will be communicated in due
course.
The five Standing Committees of the National Council were duly
constituted. They are Finance, Organisational, Constitutional,
Research and Disciplinary Committees. In addition, the Party’s
Vetting Committees was put in place.
Regional Officers updated the Council on the state of the
Party’s preparedness on the upcoming registration exercise.
Furthermore, Party Officers, MPs and key stakeholders of the
Party are requested to take the upcoming voter registration
exercise seriously and to ensure that most of our members and
supporters who have attained the voting age to patronise
registration exercise.
Signed……
Kwabena Agyei Agyepong
(General Secretary)
