Polls have closed in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer primaries on Saturday, January 31.
Voting started at 7 AM and closed at 2 PM. The primary part of the preparations for the largest opposition party towards the 2028 general elections.
Five aspirants are contesting in the internal elections.
“The agents for the various candidates are already seated for the country,” TV3’s Ashanti Region reporter William Evans Inkum reported from one of the constituencies in the Ashanti Region.
Also, TV3’s Grace Hammoah Agyeman reported from the Ablekuma North Constituency in Accra that “polls have closed”.
They are former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, former Lawmaker for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, former Education Minister Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, Former Agric Minister Dr Bryan Acheampong and former General Secretary of the NPP, Kwabena Agyei Agyepong.
Former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo cautioned the aspirant against conduct that has the propensity to destroy the unity of the party.
He said individual ambitions cannot override the ambition of the party.
“The ideology of the NPP remains attractive to Ghanaians. The NPP is bigger than any individual…unity is not an option, a strategic necessity to victory,” he said at the Peace Pact signing involving the five NPP presidential aspirants on Thursday, January 22, 2026.
The Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, also sent a word of caution to all the aspirants in the New Patriotic Party presidential primary.
He asked them act in ways that NPP.
