Source: newsthemegh.com
Boakye Agyarko, the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) candidate for the party’s presidential nomination, has given notice that he would not take part in the run-off election for positions 5 and 6 at the party’s special delegates congress on September 2, 2023.
This follows the announcement made by the Party’s General Secretary, Justin Kodua Frimpong, at a briefing on Wednesday that only National Council (NC) members would cast ballots in the extraordinary election.
Mr. Agyarko claimed that the choice to limit the electorate to North Carolina is in violation of the party’s constitution in a letter to Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye, the chairman of the presidential elections committee.
“Therefore, it is totally unconstitutional that a sub-section (about 135 National Council members) of the Special Electoral College should assume the function on behalf of the 955 delegates who voted in the first round.
“I refuse to be a part of such an act that seeks to unjustly truncate a previously agreed upon process, and cannot be part of what is about to be done on Saturday, 2nd September, 2023. I cannot with a clear conscience make such an impermissible concession to such an errant decision,” Mr. Agyarko stated.
