Meet The 7 Women On Bawumia’s 2024 Campaign Team

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) on February 19, 2024, announced its national campaign team for the 2024 general elections.

The extensive list was prepared and presented by the flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, and subsequently accepted by the National Council at a meeting at the Alisa Hotel in Accra.

According to the list sighted by GhanaWeb, there are a total of 41 persons spanning 13 subgroups from the campaign advisory committee through to operations, senior aides, and the communications directorate among others.

GhanaWeb’s analysis shows that only seven women have been appointed to serve across the 13 subgroups.

Curiously yet, four of the seven are members of the 11-member advisory committee.

 

They include:

i. Madam Joyce Aryee

 

Aryee is the founder and currently executive director of Salt & Light Ministries, a para-church organization. She also runs the Joyce Aryee Consult, which focuses on the areas of Management and Communications.

Political career

From 1982 to 1985, Aryee was appointed by the ex-president of Ghana lat Jerry John Rawlings as the secretary of information for the PNDC.

From 1985 to 1987,  she was Minister of Education, and in 1987–88, Minister of Local Government.

From 1988 to 2001, she was Minister of Democracy in the Office of the Prime Minister, and from 1993 to 2001 a Member of the National Defence Council.

 

ii. Madam Elizabeth Ohene

Elizabeth Akua Ohene is a Ghanaian journalist and politician. She served as Minister of State for Tertiary Education in Ghana under President John Kufuor. She had previously served as the Editor of the Daily Graphic, the first woman in the role.

Ohene opposes corrupt public officials in Ghana; she has stated that corruption should be known as “stealing” and pointed out that it is a scourge on progress for any country.

She has stood up for freedom of the press. In 2016, she advocated for a reporter who was banned from the Ghana Parliament for suspected misreporting, stating that she believes a reporter’s job is to push boundaries, and that mistakes should be a teachable moment but nothing more severe.

Ohene is in favour of limiting the population growth in Ghana, as a measure to decrease poverty. She supports the work of Dr Leticia Adelaide Appiah, executive director of the National Population Council, and Appiah’s proposal that women in Ghana should be limited to three children or lose access to free government services.

Ohene has been criticized by the Volta Youth Forum for her lack of support for traditional rulers, specifically for her harsh words against Togbe Afede XIV, the Paramount Chief of the Asorgli State and the President of the National House of Chiefs, in 2018

 

iii. Akosua Frema Osei Opare – the Chief of Staff

 

Frema Opare, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, is an astute development practitioner, an academic, and a Ghanaian politician. She represented Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency in the Parliament of Ghana. She is the current and first female Chief of Staff of Ghana.

Frema is a leading member of the New Patriotic Party

 

iv. Madam Mary Nartey is also listed as the Treasurer of the National Council of Elders, all members of the Council are part of the advisory committee.

Madam Mary Adjeley Nartey is the Greater Accra Regional Director of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ).

 

The remaining three women involved are:

v. Mavis Hawa Koomson – Campaign coordinator for Coastal Regions

 

Mavis Hawa Koomson is a Ghanaian politician and educationist. She is the Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East Constituency and doubles as the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development.
vi. Susana Alo – Senior Campaign Aide

 

Dr Susana Alo Tia, An expert in the Development of Communication

 

 

vii. Antoinette-Darko (Deputy-Research and Administration of Campaign Management)

 

Antoinette Tsibu-Darko is the Executive director of the Danquah Institute (DI).

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