 Flagbearer aspirants will today, Friday, October 10, 2025, ballot for their positions on the ballot paper){kind=link}
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Flagbearer aspirants will today, Friday, October 10, 2025, ballot for their positions on the ballot paper ahead of the presidential primary on January 31, 2026.
The NPP’s National Elections Committee is expected to meet the five aspirants or their representatives at the party’s headquarters in Accra.
According to the Deputy General Secretary of the NPP, Haruna Mohammed, balloting would be held for all aspirants.
Haruna Mohammed, on Thursday, October 9, 2025, stated, “All candidates who have met the guidelines, as issued on July 29, and complied with them, will be balloting today. Nobody is going to be excused from any specific guideline of the party”.
“These guidelines are grounded in the constitution, and every member who wants to lead the party into the 2028 elections must abide by it,” he added.
Also, the Communications Director of Kwabena Agyepong’s campaign team, Paul Abdul Rahman Issah Dowuona, has said they are still in the race despite controversy surrounding the payment of the GH₵4 million development fee.
Speaking on Channel One TV, Paul Abdul Rahman Issah Dowuona stated, “The issue regarding this GH₵4 million payment — he has made it clear that in principle he is against it. The party has made its point, and they are saying that they have to pay that amount.
At vetting, he was asked, and he made his position clear, and even at the vetting, he committed that if it were about a development fee, he would commit to contribute substantially to the development of the party when the need arises. His issue has always been that it shouldn’t be a prerequisite for contesting the flagbearership of the party.”
He further added, “Whatever it is, we are dealing with it internally, and so as far as you have not heard anything from the party officially that he has been taken out of the flagbearership race, it means that we are still in it. We are not going to make a view and cry about it in public. Whatever the issue, we will litigate and place it in the internal mechanism of the party”.
“As it stands, take it from me, as the director of communication, that we are still in the race. Tomorrow, God willing, we are going to go for our balloting,” he indicated.
Meanwhile, Mussa Dankwa, the Executive Director of Global InfoAnalytics, has said Kennedy Agyapong and other contenders face a daunting task to catch up with Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
According to Mussa Dankwa, it is still not over, but it is highly unlikely that every undecided voter will go to one candidate.
He highlighted that Dr Bawumia’s advantage will be difficult to overturn.
Speaking on Citi FM’s Eyewitness News on Monday, September 29, Mussa Dankwa stated, “It is still not over. I won’t say it is over, but if you look at where the leading candidate is, it is highly unlikely that every undecided voter will go to one candidate”.
“We believe that Kennedy has to do a lot more to bring Dr Bawumia down, or his other competitors should do a lot more in order to drag Dr Bawumia from where he is,” he added.
Mussa Dankwa’s remarks come following a latest poll by the Global Info Analytics, which reveals Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the former Vice President, has taken a commanding lead in the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) presidential primaries.
The poll results published on social media platforms by the Global Info Analytics revealed that Dr Bawumia secured 47 per cent of delegate support and is the clear front-runner ahead of the NPP’s primaries.
Dr Bawumia continues to enjoy the confidence of nearly half of the delegates surveyed.
Kennedy Agyapong, the former Assin Central legislator, emerged second with 17 per cent of delegates’ support.
Dr Bryan Acheampong secured only 3 per cent of delegates’ votes, while Dr Yaw Adutwum and Ing Kwabena Agyapong secured 1 per cent of delegates’ votes respectively.
However, the poll revealed that a significant number of delegates, 27 per cent, remain undecided.
Also, the poll revealed 57 per cent of Ghanaians prefer former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to lead the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) into the next general election.