Bawumia picks form today

Bawumia picks form today

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia will pick his nomination forms today, Tuesday, May 30, 2023, according to a watertight information available to ABCNews.

Dr. Bawumia, who is highly tipped to win in the presidential primaries of the ruling New Patriotic Party will send his team to pick up the GHC50,000 nomination forms, the information gathered indicates.

It would be recalled that a fun club that attempted to pick presidential nomination forms for Dr Bawumia on Friday morning had no authorisation and so was not successful.

Calling themselves, ‘Bawumia Fun Club’, the group had claimed that the Vice President deserved to be given the nod to lead the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to help the party ‘Break the 8’ and retain power in the 2024 elections.

However, the group could not provide an authorisation note and so they could not pick the forms on behalf of Dr Bawumia.

The New Patriotic Party has scheduled August 26, 2023 for its Special Electoral College Elections to select 5 persons who will contest the November 4, 2023 presidential primaries.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP), at its National Executive Committee (NEC) and National Council meetings held on Monday, April 3, 2023, approved the timelines for holding the party’s presidential primaries as follows:

Opening of Nominations- Friday, May 26, 2023

Closing of Nominations – Saturday, June 24, 2023

Special Electoral College Elections (if any) – Saturday, August 26, 2023

National Congress – Saturday, November 4, 2023.

Pursuant to the National Council timelines, the Party announced, the opening of nomination for the presidential primary election.

Nomination forms shall be obtained from the Office of the General Secretary at the Party Headquarters, Asylum Down, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm (Monday to Friday), according to the release from the party’s General Secretary.

It would be recalled that a group calling itself Friends of Bawumia, announced a few days ago that they had volunteered and contributed to purchase the nomination forms for the Vice President.

The Vice President’s team has said that while they appreciate that kind gesture, they’ll like to pay and pay for the forms themselves as same is what’s been sanctioned by the team.

ABCNews will be at the party’s headquarters to bring readers all the juicy details of the picking of the nomination forms today.

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