The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has at its National Council meeting attended by President Akufo Addo decided to hold presidential primaries to select a new candidate to lead the party into the 2020 presidential elections.

The NPP National Council also decided to postpone the presidential primaries to sometime early next year.

The party also settled on September 28, 2019, as date to hold its election for parliamentary candidates in constituencies where the party has no sitting Members of Parliament (MPs).

Members elected in these areas, which are often referred to in political circles of the country as ‘orphan constituencies’, will represent the party in the 2020 parliamentary election.

However, parliamentary primaries in respect of constituencies where the party has sitting MPs have been deferred to a later date.

A statement copied to Ghanamatters.com and signed by the General Secretary of the party, Mr John Boadu, said “These decisions were arrived at by the Party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) in pursuant to Article 21 of the party’s constitution at its meeting held on Monday, July 1, 2019, at the Alisa Hotel, Accra”.

The party, has in effect, tasked its National Steering Committee, to soon as possible come out with guidelines and modalities for the conduct of both the parliamentary and presidential primaries for the 2020 general election.

In attendance at the said meetings were the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the Vice-President, Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia, the party’s National Chairman, Freddie Blay, and members of the NEC.

Source: Ghanamatters.com