The Director of Health Promotion at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Aboagye Dacosta and seven others are believed to have so far picked nomination forms to contest the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primaries in the Kumawu Constituency by-election in the Ashanti Region.
The other seven persons are, a former Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumawu, Opanyin Yaw Baah, Obaapa Ama Serwaa, Dr Philip Yaw Barnor, Edward Kofi Osei, Kwame Appiah Kubi, Ernest Anim, and Owusu Bempah.
The Kumawu Constituency Communications Officer of the NPP, Ofori Farried, made this known to the Daily Graphic.
The Electoral Commission (EC) is expected to hold a by-election in the Kumawu Constituency after the commission was officially informed of the vacant Kumawu seat in Parliament following the death of Philip Bosoah, MP for the area.
Nominations are expected to close today, April 14, 2023, after the party announced the picking of the forms from April 11, 2023.
The party is expected to hold an election on Sunday, April 23, 2023 ahead of the by-elections.
