The Ashanti Regional Women’s Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Gloria Huze, yesterday picked the nomination forms for former Finance Minister and businessman Dr. Kwabena Duffour to run for the presidential slot of the main opposition party.
A large crowd, mainly made up of NDC supporters and sympathisers, accompanied Madam Gloria Huze, who led a delegation to the party’s headquarters to pick the nomination forms for the former Governor of the Bank of Ghana.
According to Madam Gloria Huze, Dr. Duffour will be the opposition party’s best bet for the 2024 election as he has the masses’ welfare at heart, unlike the other contenders, including former president Mahama.
Madam Huze said the 2024 presidential elections will need a courageous candidate like Dr. Duffour to lead the NDC to save the masses, particularly women.
The NDC is expected to hold its presidential and parliamentary primaries on Saturday, May 13, 2023, to elect a flagbearer and parliamentary candidates for the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections.
Mr Duffour’s main contender is Mr Mahama, who is seeking to return to the presidency after losing the 2016 elections as a sitting president.
He again lost in 2020.
The former president’s first attempt was in 2012 following the sudden demise of the then President, Prof. JEA Mills, and won with a slim margin to become the country’s 4th president in the Fourth Republic.
As the deadline for picking nominations ends today, businessman Ernest Kwaku Kobeah and Kojo Bonsu, former Mayor of Kumasi, have also joined the race, seeking to truncate the former president’s ambition of returning to power.
Some political analysts believe Dr. Kwabena Duffour would give the former president a good run for his money in the presidential primary, due mainly to his background in economics, banking and finance.
Fees
Aspiring parliamentary candidates are to pick nomination forms via the NDC website at a cost of GH¢5000, which must be paid via Mobile Money, while the presidential aspirants are paying GH¢30,000 via banker’s draft.
However, female aspirants and persons with physical disabilities would be required to pay only 50 percent of the fee charged.
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