Former Minister for Local Government, Decentralization, and Rural Development, Dan Kwaku Botwe, has been appointed as the National Campaign Chairman for Vice PresidentAlhaji Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia’s campaign team.
With a wealth of political experience and exceptional communication and managerial skills, Botwe is expected to make significant contributions to the team.
According to reliable sources, Botwe opted to step down from his ministerial role to focus on leading the campaign. This decision also influenced his choice not to seek re-election in the 2024 Parliamentary elections.
Recognized for his pivotal role in President Kufuor’s election victory in 2000, Botwe is poised to bring the same level of enthusiasm and dedication to the team, aiming to fulfill the NPP’s “Breaking the 8” agenda.
Dr. Bawumia is set to officially introduce his campaign team to the National Executives Committee of the NPP on Monday, February 19, 2024.
PROFILE OF DAN BOTWE
Daniel Kweku Botwe, a Ghanian ICT specialist and politician was born February 26, 1958 at Abiriw in the Eastern Region. He is the Member of Parliament for Okere constituency in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
He was enrolled at the Presbyterian Primary and Middle Schools at Mabang in the Ahafo-Ano of the Ashanti Region for his primary education.He obtained his GCE Ordinary Level certificate at Kumasi Academy, and his GCE Advanced Level certificate in 1977 from Achimota School. He gained admission into the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to pursue a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.
While at KNUST, he was elected as the national secretary of the National Union of Ghana Students from 1982 to 1983. His election coincided with the beginning of the military rule led by the Provisional National Defence Council.
His activism and criticism of the ruling elite resulted in him being targeted as a troublemaker. He was sentenced to exile with other Ghanaians to the Ivory Coast. He later returned to Ghana to take up an appointment as a computer analyst.
Dan Botwe contested and won the New Patriotic Party General Secretary election in 1998.
He was instrumental in the election of John Kuffour as President of Ghana in the 2000 general elections. He served in various other capacities in the party including the National Treasurer of the Youth Wing of the New Patriotic Party, and Director of Operations and Research at the National Headquarters. He served as Minister of Communications in the John Agyekum Kuffour administration.
He contested in the parliamentary election as MP for Okere District in 2008 after the incumbent, Bradford Kwame Daniel Adu, had decided to step down as the constituency’s parliamentarian.
Botwe obtained 11,974 votes out of the 19,684 total votes cast, representing 60.8% of the vote, to become the new Member of Parliament. He went on to win two successive parliamentary elections in 2012 and 2016. As MP he has contributed to the development of his constituency in several ways. In 2017, he became the Minister for Regional Reorganization and Development in the Nana Akuf-Addo administration where he oversaw the creation and the development of the 6 additional regions of Ghana.
He became the Minister for Local Government, Decentralization and Rural Development in the second term of President Akufo-Addo until the recent cabinet reshuffle.
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