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NPP Primaries: Akufo-Addo File Forms After SONA

NPP NPP Primaries: Akufo-Addo File Forms After SONA
FEB 20, 2020 LISTEN

President Akufo-Addo has filed his nomination forms to contest in the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) presidential elections slated on April 25.

He is expected to contest unopposed as he was the only one to have picked forms and submitted same as at Thursday, February 20, 2020; the deadline for filing of nominations.

The President after delivering the State of the Nation Address in Parliament on Thursday moved to the party’s headquarters at Asylum Down in Accra to submit the forms.

He was welcomed by a cheerful crowd of supports clad in party colours.

His forms were received by the Chairman of the party, Freddie Blay with other national executives of the party present.

In line with the Party’s Constitution and subsequent Rules and Regulations for the upcoming primaries, the President, being the sole contestant, will be acclaimed as the party’s 2020 flagbearer at a National Congress to be held simultaneously across the country on April 25, 2020.

President Akufo-Addo while addressing the teeming crowd of supporters urged them to avoid strife and acrimony.

He said supporters of the party must go all out and participate in the voter registration exercise in order not to be disenfranchised on the day of elections.

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“Encourage all those legible to come and register. If you don’t do that and it’s time for elections, you will not be allowed to vote. Secondly, we are going to elect our parliamentary candidates on 25th April, I’m appealing to you to do that peacefully so that there is no strife or acrimony to disturb the party,” he said.

---citinewsroom

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