Francis Addai-Nimoh, a flagbearer hopeful for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has revealed that party delegates will choose him as their preferred candidate for president on January 7, 2025.
In his second attempt, Addai-Nimoh is vying to represent the NPP as the party’s nominee for president in the general elections of 2024.
The former Mampong legislator disclosed this during an appearance on Face to Face on Citi TV indicated dynamics and history favor him being the next leader of the governing NPP.
“You recall that at the National Congress at the Accra Sports Stadium when I said the party needs a new face, we are not in opposition, and the historical antecedent has it that, if you bring someone who is part of the outgoing government, the person doesn’t succeed. In the case of Professor Mills as sitting vice president and a candidate for the NDC, the party couldn’t make it in 2000. Akufo-Addo couldn’t make it in 2008 as a minister in J. A Kufuor’s administration and in 2016, John Dramani Mahama couldn’t make it as a sitting president.”
“In the same manner, in 2014 in which I beat some of the aspirants who had served in Kufuor’s administration, I will beat them again,” he told Umaru Sanda Amadu.
Even though he will be competing against several party veterans who have held public office, he said it does not matter.
He further emphasised that he had defeated some of the persons expressing interest in running for the flagbearership in the past and that history will repeat itself.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
