The incumbent National Women’s Organizer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kate Gyamfua has been re-elected to lead the women wing of the party.
This was after the collation and tabulation of figures for the National Women Organizer position ended a few minutes ago.
Out of a total vote of 661, Kate Gyamfua, popularly called “Mama Kate”, polled 620 representing 93.78% to beat her competitors in the persons of Hajia Sawudatu and Ellen Ama Daaku who got 32 representing 4.84% and 9 representing 1.36 percent votes respectively.
Kate Gyamfua has thus been provisionally declared winner of the contest.
The Information Minister has congratulated the new executives though the Electoral Commission is yet to announce the final results /
The executive positions in the party include the National Chairperson, National Vice Chairperson, General Secretary, National Organiser, Women’s Organiser, Youth Organiser and National Nasara Coordinator.
Some 6,000 delegates will be voting in the election, including selected party members from all the 16 regions in Ghana plus some members from the diaspora branches of the NPP.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) leadership has received praise from President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for their skill in managing all the internal elections. He said the NPP has shown organizational prowess and capacity unlike any other party in Ghana.
“The final lap in electing party officials, we began with the polling station executive, 38+ polling stations, 5-member executives, we elected 6,206 electoral area coordinators, we have elected 4,658 constituency executives, and 160 regional elections, all levels of our party have been involved in these internal elections, and today we are crowning it with the national,” he said on Saturday, July 16 at the party’s delegates conference at the Accra Sports Stadium.
“No political party in Ghana has displayed the organizational skills and capacity that we in the NPP have done and God bless the New Patriotic Party.”
Additionally, Mr. Akufo-Addo asked New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegates to cast their votes for candidates who are qualified for the job.
In the general elections of 2024, he declared, the NPP is committed to ending the current eight-year electoral cycle.
On Saturday, July 16, Mr. Akufo-Addo remarked, “Breaking the 8, we shall in 2024,” at the delegates’ conference held at the Accra Sports Stadium.
In the exercise to choose new executives, more than 6000 delegates are participating in art.
Ghanaians have received assurances from President Akufo-Addo that his administration will strike a favorable agreement with the International Monetary Fund.
He asserted that the NPP has a history of negotiating IMF agreements that are in the nation’s best interests.
“Our party has a history of helping Ghana overcome obstacles. When President Kufuor was in office, we removed Ghana from HIPC. We removed Ghana from the 2015 IMF program that had gone awry, he said.
At the National Delegates Conference of the NPP, which is now taking place at the Accra Sports Stadium, the President provided the guarantee.
The subject of the conference is “Holding together, Working together.”
A total of 47 individuals running for various posts in the National Convention are likely to receive more than 6,000 delegates’ votes.
The administration formally announced its plan to work with the IMF for financial assistance on July 5. Since then, a delegation from the Bretton Woods Institutions has evaluated whether the nation qualifies for the necessary assistance. Following a week-long conversation with members of the Economic Management Team, IMF officials expressed the Fund’s commitment to supporting Ghana in the appropriate manner.
While some observers praised the government for the audacious move, others mocked it for depressing the economy with wasteful spending. They said that if the government had reduced certain unnecessary spending, the use of the IMF could have been avoided.
But President Akufo-Addo assured the Ghanaian people that they would negotiate a favorable agreement with the IMF. a deal that would enable us to strengthen our economy even further than it was already and to continue doing so.
He added, “We will be in a position to not only negotiate but also put into effect a good arrangement. We’ve done it before, and we’ll do it once more.
“In doing so, the robust economy that we are going to establish is the economy that is going to give the basis for our triumph in 2024,” President Akufo-Addo pledged.
He urged the delegates to choose the men and women who can lead the party in “breaking the eight” in order to do so.
“Let’s make sure we choose candidates who can lead the party beyond our chant to break the eight, so let’s pick the men and women who can do it. And we’ll break the eight in 2024,” he declared.
Alhaji Aliu Mahama, a member of parliament (MP) for the Yendi Constituency and the late vice president’s son during the previous Kufuor administration, supported the nomination of Stephen Ntim for party national chairman, John Boadu for general secretary, and Nana B for national organizer in order to help the NPP win the 2024 elections. Speaking on GH One TV during the NPP’s ongoing National Delegates’ Conference, the legislator said that in order for the party to succeed in its breaking the 8 mantra, delegates must transfer the party’s business to capable executives.
” For breaking the eight to become a reality, we need competent leaders, and I have faith in Stephen Ntim, John Boadu and Nana Boakye, who are contesting various positions. I trust their leadership”
”John Boadu has shown his commitment to the party, Nana B is my classmate and I know what he can do, these are the people who can help the party deliver” Farouk Aliu said.
He claimed that the party would break the eight with the help of an executive made up of both new and experienced members.
47 candidates have been approved and are vying for the party’s various national executive seats.
Out of the seven candidates running for National Chairmanship, pollsters believe Stephen Ntim will prevail.
He claims that Stephen Ayesu Ntim, George Kwabena Abankwah-Yeboah, and Stephen Asamoah Boateng are the three front-runners.
John Dramani Mahama, a former president of Ghana, wished his daughter a happy 15th birthday. As she ages, he has begged her to always be herself.
While wishing his daughter a happy birthday, the former president gave her this advice.
The family’s newborn, he said. All of a sudden very mature. Happy birthday, Farida, at age 15. I, your mother, and brothers send you a lot of love. Keep being you, and you will blossom.”
A video of Farida Mahama twerking surfaced online before she celebrated her birthday.
To the dismay of many, the teen was spotted twerking and baring her bottom.
Probationary Overseer Abubakar Diallo Sulemana was commissioned into the full-time ministry of The Church of Pentecost on Friday, making him the first Fulani minister in the history of the Church.
The historic moment took place at a commissioning service for the 2021/22 batch of ministerial students held at the Pentecost Convention Centre (PCC), Gomoa Fetteh.
Having been commissioned, P/Overseer Diallo and his wife, Mariam Diallo Sulemana, are now set for Nkwanta, where they would be stationed to serve God and the Church as the Home and Urban Missions (HUM) Pastor for the Volta & Oti sector.
This refreshing news adds to the growing list of successes chalked by the Church under the five-year strategic vision of “Possessing the Nations,” dubbed “Vision 2023,” which birthed the Home and Urban Missions, among other ministries.
Through HUM, the Church is seeking to win and disciple the marginalised, unreached and unengaged people groups, such as the Fulani community, with the unadulterated word of God, giving them hope and transforming them into positive change agents for their communities. This venture has since yielded tremendous results in the Fulani community in particular.
Considered one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, the Fulanis (Fulbes) are a Muslim-dominated community with a population of about 40,000,000 in more than 20 countries.
“In our bid to ‘possess the nations,’ we cannot leave out the Fulani community with such a huge number. Fulanis are marginalised in most countries and seem to have conflicts with most indigenous people across Africa. HUM is, therefore, seeking to intentionally and strategically reach out to them,” Apostle Kwafo, the National HUM Coordinator, shared in an interview.
According to the National Coordinator, HUM has led more than 1,000 Fulanis to Christ in the last three years.
“As we speak, we have many Fulani converts as members of The Church of Pentecost; some of whom are ordained officers of the Church,” he said, adding that: “We keep recording these success stories because God has gone ahead of us in the ‘Possessing the Nations’ agenda,”
P/Overseer Sulemana served as a Field Assistant for the Home and Urban Mission before his call into full-time ministry last year.
Apostle Kwafo said their paths crossed when P/Overseer Diallo, then a Muslim turned Christian, was moving from Ghana to neighbouring Burkina to fellowship with a Fulani Church there.
Through the recommendation and help of a friend, Apostle Kwafo got in touch with Diallo, as he is affectionately called, and decided to bring him on board.
“After our meeting, we encouraged him to join The Church of Pentecost and created a space in the Church for him where he felt a sense of belonging. We also took him through discipleship and training to equip him to be effective in worship and service to God,” he said.
Apostle Agyei Kwafo believes that P/Overseer Diallo’s association with The Church of Pentecost is no coincidence but a divine orchestration since, through him, the Church has made significant inroads in the Muslim-dominated community with the gospel of Christ.
“Diallo joined at the right time when Vision 2023 was categorically intentional to reach out to the Fulani community,” he remarked.
Speaking to PENTECOST NEWS on the sidelines of the commissioning service, P/Overseer Sulemana expressed gratitude to God and the leadership of the Church for the investment made in him since he joined The Church of Pentecost.
He said the ministerial training has made him a better Christian and equipped him for a holistic ministry.
“I used to be more comfortable dealing with my people (Fulbes). However, through this training, I have become more confident and can now engage non-Fulbes. I have also learned more about the Church from my colleagues. This has been very helpful, especially since I was not born into The Church of Pentecost,” he said.
P/Overseer Diallo is poised for the task ahead and now feels adequately prepared for the work of the ministry.
“I am very grateful that God chose The Church of Pentecost to be the channel through which the gospel would reach my people, and I could not be more honored to be part of this story,” he said.
The newly-commissioned ministers, 127 in all, comprise 115 Ghanaians and 12 others from nine different countries (Nigeria, South Africa, Botswana, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Gambia, India, Cape Verde, and Madagascar)
The new ministers have successfully completed the first phase of their ministerial formation course at the School of Theology, Mission, and Leadership (STML) of Pentecost University.
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, vice president of Ghana, has asserted that the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) track record in resolving issues in Ghana is unsurpassed under the Fourth Republic. He realizes that the nation is currently going through a difficult time, but he is confident that with the New Patriotic Party government’s leadership, they will overcome all obstacles.
This was stated by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in his speech at the ongoing election for National Delegates.
“Yes, we are a government that solves problems! These are only a few of the issues that transformative policies have helped us to resolve, he added.
“We certainly haven’t solved every problem, but no party in the fourth republic can equal our record as the NPP when we were in power,” they continued. Period”
“We have demonstrated the capacity to solve problems and I am confident that even though the road ahead is rough given the global economic crisis, we shall solve the existing problems with hard work and innovative policies,” he said further.
Despite not attending the 2022 delegates convention, Sarah Adwoa Safo, the member of parliament (MP) for Dome-Kwabenya, still has the New Patriotic Party (NPP) at heart. Adwoa Safo, the Ghanaian Minister for Gender, Children, and Social Protection who lives in the US, posted the image on her official social media to wish the congress attendees luck.
The theme for this year’s congress is “Holding Together, Working Together,” according to Adwoa Safo.
Adwoa Safo has been absent from the legislature for nearly a year, and a return is not in the cards.
She maintains that she was not invited, despite multiple invitations from the privileges committee, and that until she shows there, nothing can be done.
