Ghana’s Ruling Party Picks Candidates for Presidential Primary

Ghana’s governing New Patriotic Party has endorsed a slate of candidates, including vice president Mahamudu Bawumia, to contest the NPP’s presidential primary slated for Nov. 4.

In a so-called “super delegate congress” to reduce the number of aspirants to five from an initial ten, Bawumia received 68.15% of total votes, Serebour Quarcoo, director of electoral services at the nation’s electoral commission, said in Accra.