The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Elections Committee responsiblefor the organization of the party’s Sekyere Kumawu Constituency Parliamentary primaries has cleared six (6) out of eight (8) aspiring candidates to contest for the bye election on Sunday 23rd April 2023.
The party opened nomination from Monday 11th – 14th April 2023 for interested party members to pick nomination forms followed by filing of nomination forms on 15th April, 2023.
Aspirants who have picked nominations forms by the close of nomination on Thursday April 14th 2023 include: Lawyer Edward Kofi Osei, Dr. Philip Bannor, Dr. Da Costa Aboagye, Mr Ernest Yaw Anim, Madam. Ama Serwaa, Mr. Kwame Appiah-Kubi, Yaw Baah former Kumawu MP unseated by the late MP and Osei Hweree Kwame Bempah.
After vetting 8 Parliamentary candidate hopefuls on Sunday 16th April 2023 two of the aspirant’s nomination clearance was put on hold following lack of supporting documentary evidence to back their claims when they met the committee.
Chairman of the Kumawu NPP’s Parliamentary Primaries committee who doubles as the First Vice National Chairman of the NPP, Mr. Danquah Smith Butey said “After vetting all the 8 aspirants, we cleared 6 of them; however, we have put on hold clearance of two including Lawyer Edward Kofi Osei and Dr. Philip Bannor. The committee has requested that they submit some documents to back certain claims they made before us. We have given them up to Wednesday 19th April 2023 to do that. After which we will formally announce the final list of aspirants cleared to contest the primaries’’ he explained.
He added “all the aspirants who appeared for the vetting have been told to start their campaign which we all know they had started before the vetting. Our aim is to avoid apathy therefore; everything will be done in a transparent manner’’ he assured.
