The National Council of the New Patriotic Party has unanimously endorsed Energy Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh as the running mate for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia for the upcoming general elections.
The National Council endorsed the decision today, Thursday, July 4, 2024, after earlier meetings with the National Executive Council and the National Steering Committee of the party.
The running mate was the Education Minister in the first term of President Akufo-Addo and is currently the Energy Minister.
Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, popularly known as NAPO, is also the Member of Parliament for Manhyia South and former Education Minister.
Announcing the decision by the party, General Secretary Justin Koduah Frimpong described the Energy Minister as a grass-roots person who would support the candidate towards victory in 2024.
He said he is arguably the only Minister of Education in Ghana’s history to have successfully implemented the free SHS policy in the first term of President Akufo-Addo.
He added that Dr. Opoku Prempeh has shown his integrity and is well-known for his forthright opinions aimed at the country’s overall good.
Dr. Opoku Prempeh’s competence and ethics will be useful in their campaign for the 2024 general elections, he said .
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Born on May 23, 1968, in Ashanti New Town, a suburb of Kumasi, NAPO hails from Pakyi No. 2 in the Ashanti Region.
He started his basic education at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Primary and continued to Prempeh College in Kumasi for his middle school education
He studied Human Biology and Medicine at KNUST and completed his MB CHB in 1994. He continued with post-graduate studies in MSc. Clinical Epidemiology at the Netherlands Institute of Health Sciences in 1998 and at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where he studied Leadership and Government(certificate course). In 2002, he pursued postgraduate training in surgery in the UK (MRCS).
Prior to entering parliament, NAPO served as CEO of Keyedmap Security Services Limited from 2004 to 2009. He is also a medical doctor and served as a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2003.
He went on to state that the selection of NAPO brings to the NPP presidential ticket a bold, confident, hardworking, decisive, grassroots mobilizer, charismatic, patriotic, and someone who will compliment the ticket.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
