Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku Confirms 3rd Attempt At Presidency By Picking Up NPP Nomination From

An Economist and also former Member of Parliament for the Offinso North constituency, Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku, has picked his nomination form to contest the flagbearership race of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Mr Kwame Obiri Nkansah, Communications Director, Friends of Apraku, picked the form on behalf of Dr Apraku at the Party’s Headquarters in Asylum Down, Accra, on Friday.

Dr Apraku who is a three time Member of Parliament was the fourth candidate to pick the form on the first day of opening of nominations.

Addressing the media after picking the form, Mr Nkansah said the NPP and Ghana needed a leader with political experience and economic prowess to turn the fortunes of the country around.

He said the experience of Dr Apraku as a renowned Economist, made him the best person to lead the Party into the general election.

According to Mr Nkansah, improving local production and strengthening the local currency remained key on the agenda of Dr Apraku.

Therefore, Dr Apraku, would reduce importation, increase local production, particularly cocoa and add value to the country’s raw materials to strengthen the country’s currency and its economy.

“We must go back to the basics if we want to address this economic crisis. Going to basics means growing what we eat and produce what we wear and this is the focus of Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku,” Mr Nkansah said.

 

About Dr. Konadu Apraku

 

Konadu Apraku was born at Akumadan in the Asante region of Ghana on 7 September 1954.

He attended Tweneboa Kodua Secondary School between 1967 and 1972 and furthered his education in South Albany High School in Oregon, U.S.A. after winning an AFS International essay competition after which he studied for economics degrees at the Oregon State University taking a doctorate in the subject.

 

Kofi Konadu Apraku was Minister for Regional Cooperation and NEPAD in John Kufuor’s administration from 2003 to 2006. He also served as the Minister of Trade and Industry under Kufour from 2001 to 2003.

In the year 2008 he was appointed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Council of Ministers as ECOWAS Commissioner for Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Research where he is responsible for Multilateral surveillance mechanism which involves regular assessment through joint surveillance mission of the economies of ECOWAS members’ state to ascertain whether the convergences criteria are being met and provide economic and statistical data for member sate and help them attain the convergence criteria and the ECOWAS single currency.

He is also liaises with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund [IMF], African Development Bank among other financial institution to support the development of ECOWAS regions.

Kofi Konadu Apraku was first voted into parliament on 7 January 1997 to represent his constituency (Offinso North). He polled 10,456 votes out of the 21,428 valid votes cast representing 37.80%.[7] He contested against Nana Oduro-Baah an NDC member who polled 10,257 votes representing 37.10%, Manu Yaw Joseph and PNC member who polled 358 votes representing 1.30% and Emmanuel Kwame Boakye an IND member who polled 357 votes representing 1.30%.

He was the reelected on 7 January 2001 after he emerged winner of the 2000 Ghanaian General Elections and polled 13,160 votes out of the 21,543 valid votes cast representing 61.00%. He was also re-elected as the Member of Parliament for Offinso North Constituency of the Asante Region in the 2004 Ghanaian general elections with a sum total votes of 13,389 representing 50.30% of the total votes cast.

He was among the 17 aspirants who contested in 2007 for the slot of flag-bearer of the New Patriotic Party, going into the 2008 elections.

 

The NPP, on Friday, May 26, opened nominations for the election of its Presidential Candidate for the 2024 General Election.

The one month exercise kick-starts the processes for the final leg of the Party’s internal elections to elect a presidential candidate on Saturday, November 4, 2023 for the 2024 general election.

The exercise would end on June 24, 2023.

So far, Mr Boakye Agyarko, a former Energy Minister, Mr Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, former General Secretary of the Party and Mr Francis Addai-Nimoh, a former MP for Mampong, have all picked nomination forms to contest the Party’s presidential race.

 

 

 

 

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