The Special Committee set up by the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has settled on Solomon Kwame Asumadu as the party’s parliamentary candidate for the upcoming by-election in Akwatia.
Addressing the press at Parliament on Monday, July 28, 2025, the chairman of the Special Committee, Jeff Konadu, who is also the NPP Eastern Regional Chairman, said that they settled on Kwame Asumadu, the CEO of Owuo Mining Company, after an agreement by all interested parties.
He said that the party will now acclaim the Chief Executive Officer of Owuo Mining Company as its parliamentary candidate, with the acclamation set to follow in due course.
He explained that the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) was tasked to find out whether there was a need for primaries to elect a candidate for the election.
After extensive consultation with the party’s members in Akwatia, the committee concluded that there was no need for primaries.
He indicated that after agreeing there should be no primaries, the committee also engaged the party faithful on the person to represent them in the election.
“People went into the constituency and gave them all the names that had expressed interest — Honourable Ameyaw Kyeremeh, Lawyer Owuridu, Kwame Asumadu, Daniel Nyame, Osei Appiah — to go into the constituency, into the villages, into the towns to throw out these names, to come back and report to us who the suitable person would be.
“When it came, the party saw that they had settled on Kwame Asumadu Solomon. And so we reported back to council, and council gave us a go-ahead to engage further and to follow due process, to do a popular acclamation,” he said.
All the persons who had expressed interest in representing the party were present at the press conference.
Isaac Osei Appiah, speaking on behalf of the remaining candidates, declared their support for Kwame Asumadu in the upcoming by-election
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